japanese literature in english

Asleep

Translated by: Michael Emmerich

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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.

Japanese title: Shirakawa yofune
Subjects: Banana Yoshimoto, Translations into English
Man-woman relationships, Fiction
Triangles, Interpersonal relations, Fiction
Women, Fiction
Notes: Japanese title: Shirakawa yofune. Contents: Night and night’s travelers, Love songs, Asleep.
Description: 177 p. ; 19 cm.
ISBN: 9780802116697
9780802138200
OCLC Number: 42980262
Genre: Fiction
Document Type: Book
Publisher: Grove Press
Publication Place: New York
Japanese Publication Date: 1989
English Publication Date: 2000

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