Asleep
By: Banana Yoshimoto ; translated from the Japanese by Michael Emmerich
Contributors: Emmerich, Michael
Publisher: Grove Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 177
ISBN-13: 9780802116697; 9780802138200
Subjects: Fiction; Triangles (Interpersonal relations); Man-woman relationships; Women
Work titles: Shirakawa yofune
Description: Already an international bestseller, "Asleep" comprises three novellas of women bewitched into a spiritual sleep. One, mourning a lost lover, finds herself sleepwalking. Another, who has embarked on a relationship with a man whose wife is in a coma, finds herself suddenly unable to stay awake. And a third finds her sleep haunted by a woman she was once pitted against in a love triangle.
Table of contents: title: Night and night's travelers; title: Love songs; title: Asleep.