Author: Yoshimoto, Banana
Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Published on 3 September 2001 by FABER & FABER in the United Kingdom.
Paperback | 192 pages
214 x 127 x 16 | 162g
FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF KITCHEN'Enchanting.' TIME OUT'The literary equivalent of a lo-fi playlist.' JAPAN TIMES'Sensitive, refined and graceful.' i-D[Yoshimoto] is the supreme poet of solitude.' SPECTATORMourning her lost lover, a woman finds herself sleepwalking at night.
Another woman, in the midst of an affair with a man whose wife is in a coma, finds herself suddenly unable to stay awake.
And a third woman finds her dreams haunted by an old rival in love.
Across the nocturnal lives of these three women, Banana Yoshimoto weaves an enchanting ghost story, with a touch of Kafkaesque surrealism.