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Paperback. Pub Date: 2001 07 Pages: 192 in Publisher: Grove Press Atlantic Monthly Press The New York Daily News has called Asleep enchanting surreal ... Yoshimoto-ings readers to another powerful atmospheric place. Demonstrating again the artful simplicity and depth of her vision. Banana Yoshimoto reestablishes her place as a writer of international stature in a book that may be her most delightful since Kitchen. In Asleep. Yoshimoto spins the stories of three young women bewitched into a spiritual sleep. One. mourning for a lost lover. finds herself sleepwalking at night. Another. who has embarked on a relationship with a man whose wife is in a coma. finds herself suddenly unable to stay awake. A third finds her sleep haunted by a woman against whom she was once pitted in a love triangle. Sly and
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Banana Yoshimoto's Asleep is actually three novellas: "Night and Night's Travelers", "Love Songs" and "Asleep". The death of those close to the narrator is a recurring theme in the stories with sleep being used as a vehicle in which the everyday is denied whilst more important spiritual matters--coming to terms with the death, and life, of loved ones--can be achieved. In "Night and Night's Travelers" the narrator's brother has died and his lover has begun sleepwalking--her night-walks are a communion, a curse and a blessing, and a route through to understanding. In "Love Songs", a woman involved with a man whose wife is in a coma begins to sleep uncontrollably. In "Asleep" the narrator is haunted by an old rival in a love triangle--again, through sleep, and perhaps through dreams or a certain kind of sensibility, a hitherto forbidden or foreclosed communion flourishes. Yoshimoto has a wonderfully light touch and whilst the characterisation in these novellas is slight and the mysticism a little cloying, the optimism is infectious and the sadness beautifully articulated. "Asleep" is well worth staying awake for.
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- PublisherGrove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press
- Publication date2001
- ISBN 10 0802138209
- ISBN 13 9780802138200
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- Number of pages192
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