Asleep

Banana Yoshimoto has a magical ability to animate the lives of her young characters and here she spins the stories of three women all bewitched into a spiritual sleep. One mourning 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 another woman whom she was once pitted against in a love triangle. Sly and mystical as a ghost story with a touch of Kafkaesque surrealism <b>Asleep</b> is an enchanting book from one of the best writers in contemporary international fiction.