Asleep

First edition in English. 12mo. Pp. [viii], 177. Quarter-bound in black cloth over grey paper boards, stamped in gilt to spine. Book design by Laura Hammond Hough. Jacket design by Charles Rue Woods. Jacket illustration by Paul D'Innocenzo. Translated from the Japanese by Michael Emmerich. Originally published by Kadokawa Shoten as Shirakawa Yofune.

Author's third novel and fifth one to be translated into English. A collection of three novellas, each featuring a young female protagonist bewitched into a spiritual sleep. "[E]nchanting, surreal... Yoshimoto brings readers to another powerful, atmospheric place". –The New York Daily News