num_pages: 177
description: "Asleep" tells the stories of three women, all bewitched into a spiritual sleep. One, mourning a lost love, finds herself sleepwalking at night. Another, embarking on a relationship with a man whose wife is in a coma, finds herself unable to stay awake. The third finds her sleep haunted.
language: English
title: Asleep
titlecomplete: Asleep
genres: Fiction, Magical Realism, Asia, Short Stories, Japan, Japanese Literature, Literature, Asian Literature, Novels, Contemporary
ratings_count: 12803
places: Japan
publisher: Faber and Faber Limited