num_pages: 224
description: Bertrand, a young African-American anthropologist, has ostensibly come to Senegal to do field research. In truth, he left his home in Denver to gain a fresh perspective on his troubled marriage. Struggling to fit in with his new Senegalese family--Alaine, his wife Kene, and their young daughter--Bertrand finds himself, for the first time in his life, haunted by surreal and increasingly violent dreams. His waking hours are no less sinister; unwittingly, it seems, Bertrand has become caught in the tension--sexual and otherwise--building between the married couple.
language: English
title: He Sleeps
titlecomplete: He Sleeps
genres: Fiction, Africa
ratings_count: 60
awards: awardedAt: 1009872000000
name: Hurston/Wright Legacy Award
category: Fiction, awardedAt: 1009872000000
name: Society of Midland Authors Award
category: Adult Fiction
publisher: Picador