The New York Daily News has called Asleep "enchanting, surreal . . . Yoshimoto
brings readers to another powerful, atmospheric place". Demonstrating again the
artful simplicity and depth of her vision, Banana Yoshimoto reestablishes her
place as a writer of international stature in a book that may be her most
delightful since Kitchen.In Asleep, Yoshimoto spins the stories of three young
women 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