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by Banana Yoshimoto (Author), Michael Emmerich (Translator)
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  • Paperback: 184 pages
  • Publisher: Faber and Faber; New edition edition (3 Sep 2001)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0571205372
  • ISBN-13: 978-0571205370
  • Product Dimensions: 19.4 x 12.6 x 1.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 58,096 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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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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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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4.0 out of 5 stars Stepping out of the ordinary., 31 Jan 2002
Against the background of the routine, everyday life of Japanese youth Yoshimoto's writing delves into the depths of consciousness from such a unique angle and from such a refreshing viewpoint that it made this collection of novellas strangely spellbinding.
Sleep is her main theme and runs throughout the three individual stories. The sense of loss and loneliness is prevalent, as is Yoshimoto's preoccupation with the night and by association the not quite so real world. Ghosts, psychics, sleepwalkers and suicide victims all feature in this book as part of dreams or chance encounters.
The narrative appears disjointed at first, time shifts about in no clear chronological order, it is only at the end when all the pieces fit into place. The main character in each story narrates a time in their life when they, or in the case of the first story, a cousin, started slipping away, started stepping out of normal life and just slept, all the time. This 'fading away' of the characters and the reasons for their deterioration is gradually unfolded as the traumatic, tragic event that changed the lives of these once typical young people is told. By weaving the threads of surreal ideas into the fabricate of a normal context Yoshimoto produces an extremely readable and interesting book.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Good to reflect on, 12 Mar 2003
By Miss Georgina E West (Docklands, London United Kingdom) - See all my reviews
I first discovered Banana Yoshimoto when I received this book as a gift from a friend – and I have to say that friend has certainly gone up in my estimations! Like most of Banana Yoshimotos books there is a certain dream like quality about them and although on the surface they seem to be stories about not very much dig a little deeper and you will see how deep they really go; they make a very good reflective read.

Without seeming to the author explores various aspects of human character and you can get as much out of the book as you want to put in. This particular book is nice as the three separate stories means you can pick it up and put it down quite easily however once you have read the whole book the stories fuse together to give you a larger picture.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Out of the Ordinary, 25 Mar 2009
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This book is truly something out of the ordinary and nothing like what I have read before. This book takes you on a journey through our inner psyche, the place that is taken by our dreams and our subconscious. Yoshimoto explores a range of different, very abstract ideas about our inner worlds and what our dreams compromise of. There are various connected themes, and there are points in the book that are spellbinding, lonely, and utterly creative. If you are a Yoshimoto fan, this book will certainly please.
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