Asleep - Banana Yoshimoto, Michael Emmerich (Translator) torrent

Category: Adults, Contemporary, General Fiction, Short Story
Language: English
Keywords: Asia Asian Literature Contemporary Fiction Japan Japanese Literature Literature Magical Realism Novels Short Stories

Written by Banana Yoshimoto, Michael Emmerich (Translator)
Read by Emily Zeller
Format: M4B
Bitrate: 128 Kbps
Unabridged

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 by a woman against whom she was once pitted 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.

Length: 4 hrs and 47 mins
Release date: 07-06-15