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, Asleep is an enchanting new book from one of the best writers in contemporary international fiction.
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'Yoshimoto's writing is lucid, earnest and disarming, as emotionally observant as Jane Smiley's, as fluently readable as Anne Tyler's.' New York Times
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A Young Adult Novel in Disguise,
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This book is three novellas about young women who are,in one way or the other, unconscious. In the first, the narrator is mourning for her beloved brother, the second is told by at the end of a painful affair and the last is about a woman having an affair with a man whose wife is in a coma. The narrators are all somewhat detached from reality and emotions so it's not strange to hear that one meets her lost brother in a strange encounter or when another uses a medium to make contact with a romantic rival or when the third starts to become comatose herself. It helps to understand that sleep itself has a special meaning Night-time and Sleep in Asia and the West: Exploring the Dark Side of Life (Anthropology in Asia)in Japan, but in the end these little fictions-which were written by a 25 year-old are really more suitable in both style and substance for a younger reader. Lynn Hoffman, author of the completely adult bang BANG: A Novel
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