false <![CDATA[Asleep]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170367439m/50143.jpg 50143 13 Banana Yoshimoto's novels have established her as one of Japan's finest and most popular writers, and as an acclaimed and best-selling literary star all over the world. Now she delivers three novellas that develop her sophisticated, resonant, and artfully simple vision, in <I>AsleepKitchen</I>. Banana Yoshimoto has a nuanced and 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 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 whom she was once pitted against in a love triangle. Sly and mystical as a ghost story, with a touch of Kafkaesque surrealism, <I>Asleep</I> is an enchanting new book from one of the best writers in contemporary international fiction. 49020 book 1989 Asleep total:796|5:158|4:299|3:268|2:65|1:6| 796 2926 1026 46 3 1 true false Sun Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Tue Jul 03 04:48:08 -0700 2007 Tue Jul 24 23:03:58 -0700 2007 Asleep. It was my first Banana Yoshimoto book and while I didn't dislike it, I didn't necesarily find anything in particular to like about it.

It was weird in that way that Japanese literature is usually weird, and usually I'm okay with that. Aslee...more...]]> 2 0 false false Tue Oct 23 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Mon Jul 27 12:18:01 -0700 2009 Mon Jul 27 12:18:01 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Sat May 30 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Apr 22 09:59:03 -0700 2009 Sun May 31 17:54:00 -0700 2009 sleepwalking, maka ...more...]]> 3 0 false false Wed Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Oct 20 19:59:14 -0700 2008 Thu Jan 29 15:01:15 -0800 2009 Asleep is a collection of three short novellas, all of which focus on some aspect of death and also a sleeping, either literal or psychic, born of trauma.

"Night and Night's Travelers" is a tale of the literal death of one and the resulting temporary emotional death of another. ...more...]]> 5 0 false false Sat Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Wed Sep 10 22:03:43 -0700 2008 Wed Sep 10 22:04:59 -0700 2008 1 more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri Mar 06 10:47:30 -0800 2009 Fri Mar 06 10:53:05 -0800 2009 1 0 false false Wed Feb 18 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Wed Feb 11 17:54:35 -0800 2009 Wed Feb 18 13:19:03 -0800 2009 4 0 false false Sun Aug 17 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri Mar 16 09:10:27 -0700 2007 Mon Aug 18 07:32:55 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Aug 27 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Sep 05 08:57:30 -0700 2009 Sat Sep 05 08:58:48 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Tue Jan 15 11:03:39 -0800 2008 Thu Jan 17 18:15:57 -0800 2008 more...]]> 3 0 false false Mon Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Tue Jan 01 11:26:55 -0800 2008 Tue Jan 01 11:31:52 -0800 2008 Asleep is a collection of three novellas, all of which are pretty good, the title one being the best. All three stories involve protagonists with sleep disorders, and Yoshimoto weaves the narratives of all three stories in and out of the past and the present. This leads to some ...more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 12 02:08:37 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 12 02:10:03 -0800 2009 5 0 false false Tue Nov 11 00:50:18 -0800 2008 Tue Nov 11 01:04:54 -0800 2008 so, you COULD say that all of yoshimoto's stories are pretty much the same and are ...more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Aug 20 11:13:24 -0700 2009 Thu Aug 20 11:14:15 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Sun Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sun Jul 29 18:34:34 -0700 2007 Sun Jul 29 18:41:20 -0700 2007 more...]]> 5 0 false false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2001 Sat Mar 17 07:35:41 -0700 2007 Sat Mar 17 07:39:21 -0700 2007 more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Jul 28 10:42:46 -0700 2009 Mon Jul 20 10:03:35 -0700 2009 Tue Jul 28 10:42:46 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Fri Jun 08 18:24:36 -0700 2007 Fri Nov 23 18:18:28 -0800 2007 more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri Apr 04 11:09:43 -0700 2008 Wed Apr 09 15:30:40 -0700 2008 more...]]> 3 0 false false Sun Apr 12 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Feb 25 04:57:37 -0800 2009 Sun Apr 12 10:14:50 -0700 2009 more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=50143