ASLEEP BY BANANA YOSHIMOTO PDF. Yoshimoto reestablishes her place as a writer of international stature in a book that may be her most delightful since Kitchen. With the publication of Kitchen, the dazzling English-language debut that is still her best-loved book, the literary world realized that Yoshimoto was a young writer of enduring talent whose work has quickly earned a place among the best of contem. Comincia il romanzo di Banana Yoshimoto, Kitchen, pubblicato, con grande successo, in Italia in prima traduzione mondiale da. Non riuscivo mai a prendere sonno, e. Banana Yoshimoto - NP,. Formato del file: Epub Azw3 Mobi Pdf. Biblioteca Don Bosco Religione pdf 1 039. Thrawn 03 L'ultima missione Yoshimoto Banana Delfini Yoshimoto Banana Sonno Profondo Zusak Marcus. About Banana Yoshimoto: Banana Yoshimoto (よしもと ばなな or 吉本 ばなな) is the pen name of Mahoko Yoshimoto (吉本 真秀子), a Japanese contemporary writer.
Banana Yoshimoto - NP,. Formato del file: Epub Azw3 Mobi Pdf. Biblioteca Don Bosco Religione pdf 1 039. Thrawn 03 L'ultima missione Yoshimoto Banana Delfini Yoshimoto Banana Sonno Profondo Zusak Marcus.
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Con 'Sonno profondo' Banana Yoshimoto indaga nel cuore di tre giovani donne e ne trae ombre plastiche, insinuanti, che echeggiano il vuoto della notte e la paura della solitudine. Vicina al germogliare più segreto delle emozioni, disegna un mondo sfuggente e tuttavia concreto, che accompagna il lettore in un'avventura dell'anima di straordinaria incisività.
Published June 2015 by Feltrinelli (first published 1989)
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shannon pulusani read asleep and thought the same thing. but you have to note that cousin marriage isn't seen as incestuous in japan. however, mari's family's…morei read asleep and thought the same thing. but you have to note that cousin marriage isn't seen as incestuous in japan. however, mari's family's negative reaction to their relationship made me think otherwise for a moment. (less)
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Mar 30, 2018Jr Bacdayan rated it really liked it · review of another edition
Close your eyes. Listen to your slow breathing. Inhale. Exhale. A small pull in your mind is telling you not to open your eyes anymore. Maybe lie down, take a break, relax a little. You are tired, rest for a while. You feel an entrancing call. It’s a small tug, but it is very compelling, even enchanting, and before you know it you are asleep. Resting, recharging, but now defenseless, powerless. Vulnerable to your own unconscious with its own unpredictable will to never give up control to your co...more
Nov 26, 2015Zanna rated it really liked it · review of another edition Shelves: short-fiction, 2015year-reading-women, bechdel-pass, translated
I find Banana Yoshimoto's style so distinctive, full of feelings and sensations expressed with touching openness, so unassuming and informal. Under this limpid surface, as under the millpond skin of fairytale, meanings proliferate like living fishes, flickering in and out of view. The story is gifted to the reader with humble generosity; I have this for you, the giver says, and what you'll use it for isn't up to me.
There are some moments when corroborations give the little narratives what feels...more
There are some moments when corroborations give the little narratives what feels...more
Jun 04, 2017Caroline rated it liked it · review of another edition
3.5 out of 5
AFTER reading Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto (cutest name ever) I was really looking forward to reading more by her. I didn't enjoy this book quite as much but it was still fun to read. She writes of contemporary life but also dips into magical realism. The book follows three different women who are bewitched in some way into a spiritual sleep- one finds herself sleepwalking at night, one finds her sleep haunted by the ghost of a woman whom she was once pitted against in a love triangle...more
AFTER reading Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto (cutest name ever) I was really looking forward to reading more by her. I didn't enjoy this book quite as much but it was still fun to read. She writes of contemporary life but also dips into magical realism. The book follows three different women who are bewitched in some way into a spiritual sleep- one finds herself sleepwalking at night, one finds her sleep haunted by the ghost of a woman whom she was once pitted against in a love triangle...more
May 06, 2019Paltia rated it really liked it · review of another edition
Three stories that tell of young women who are waiting. They wait for whatever they believe will make everything all right in their worlds. Sometimes sleep helps them wait. The various states of slumber are both mysterious and magical. They all wait to hear the still small voice within that announces it’s okay, you may stop waiting and awaken to life. Each character looks for a way to remain calm and find their peace while dealing with guilt, ghosts and loss. They are at home in the world of vis...more
Jul 03, 2007Angela rated it liked it · review of another edition
I don't really know what to say about 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. Asleep consists of three short stories (or maybe novellas?) and none of them really have any ending to them. Normally, I'm okay with the ambiguous ending that Japanese authors like so much, but having three stories back...more
Aug 10, 2019Phoenix2 rated it liked it · review of another editionIt was weird in that way that Japanese literature is usually weird, and usually I'm okay with that. Asleep consists of three short stories (or maybe novellas?) and none of them really have any ending to them. Normally, I'm okay with the ambiguous ending that Japanese authors like so much, but having three stories back...more
Shelves: japanese
Asleep had some good stories. I especially enjoyed the first two. However, I've found all of them a little pointless. The theme about loss and how different characters dealed with it was interesting. However, we didn't get to see much of the characters' stories, personalities, past and life. We just get a glimpse of it. Plus, at times, it was kind of boring to read, as you can guess that the story is going nowhere. Still, it was a nice read.
May 02, 2019Vanessa rated it really liked it · review of another edition
This is probably my favourite of the three Banana Yoshimoto books I've read so far. Asleep contains three short stories that all feature sleep (or the lack of it) in some way, and also carry similar themes of death/loss and love. Yoshimoto's writing has that familiar quality that I've noticed contemporary Japanese literature often has, a very minimal approach that is at the same time wildly evocative. Yoshimoto's is some of the best I've read in a while though, and her prose surrounded me like a...more
Aug 08, 2012Malcolm rated it really liked it · review of another edition
Much of Yoshimoto’s work is characterised by pathos, sadness, emptiness and yearning in the sense that many of her characters seem to be missing something or someone, searching or somehow slightly incomplete. She continues this theme-among-the-young in these three novellas (according to the marketing blurb) or long short stories (I remain unclear exactly what a novella might be) about young women – all, it seems, in their early- to mid-20s – dealing with loss and sacrifice over which they have l...more
Mar 01, 2018Madelyn Marie rated it it was amazing · review of another edition
I've read three Yoshimoto books and seven stories altogether. I love the way she writes women. I love her writing: it's simplistic in structure and vocabulary but it's piercing. Her imagery is mainly based in nature and there's always this kind of feeling that the events of the story are separate from reality. These people are living out their lives quietly in a separate little pocket of existence. Sometimes there's magical realism, sometimes not, but it never overwhelms and it's never overt in...more
Feb 18, 2019Jordan rated it really liked it · review of another edition
“...it was also that recently I’d been settling into a sleep so profound that, ever time I woke, It was like I’d die and was just returning to life—-I could almost believe that, and sometimes it even occurs to me that if I were able to look at myself what I slept, all I’d see would be my perfectly white bones, nothing else.”
Banana Yoshimoto’s Asleep was the perfect book to get me out of my reading slump last week. the writing was refreshing, as was the subject. i can’t wait to read more of her w...more
Banana Yoshimoto’s Asleep was the perfect book to get me out of my reading slump last week. the writing was refreshing, as was the subject. i can’t wait to read more of her w...more
Aug 29, 2010Zuzia rated it it was amazing · review of another edition
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Sep 02, 2012Matt rated it liked it · review of another edition
With a synopsis that promises fantastical elements of plot, it's best not to come into this book expecting Murakami levels of surrealism. This 'novel' could better be described as 3 thematically-connected novellas, as none of their plots intersect, and their only connections are the shared meditations on death, loss, and sleep.
Banana Yoshimoto's writing is great though, simple but expressive. No use of complex metaphors here, but she knows how to maintain a slow-burn in describing the sad lives...more
Banana Yoshimoto's writing is great though, simple but expressive. No use of complex metaphors here, but she knows how to maintain a slow-burn in describing the sad lives...more
Jul 02, 2010Timothy Hallinan rated it it was amazing · review of another edition
Three amazing stories -- novellas, really -- about women and sleep -- sleepwalking, sleeplessness, and haunted sleep. Yoshimoto has one of the most delicate touches in fiction, layering implications and textures into dream landscapes that don't resemble the work of any other writer I know, although this particular book has been compared to Haruki Murakami. But Yoshimoto is her own writer.
Apr 23, 2016Tamsien West (Babbling Books) rated it really liked it · review of another edition Shelves: contemporary, short-stories, translated, japan, read-the-world, women-in-translation
Three melancholy tales about the lonely interior lives of women who live lives outside convention. Yoshimoto has a distinctive voice throughout them all, capturing the frustrated ambition and listlessness that grief can bring with it. Full review to come.
May 20, 2019Andrew added it · review of another edition
So this is typical Banana Yoshimoto fare... fluffy and dreamy, all revolving around the themes of sleep (or lack thereof). I can't say that it's anything groundbreaking, but I like her style in general, and this was a distracting enough read. The only problem is that, given how fluffy it was, it became rather hard for me to get invested, especially given the hectic week I've had. Hell, I'm struggling to even think of something much to say. I'll save each story for later, for a time when I can fo...more
Feb 04, 2016Liviu rated it it was amazing · review of another edition Shelves: read_2016, shorts, mainstream, t_n_bks_2007_earlier
3 novellas dealing with haunted sleep by the death of a friend/lover - all written in the first person narration by a young woman, though she is not always the haunted one
the first novella Night and Night's Travelers is superb and among the best shorter (~65 pages) pieces of fiction I've ever read; the narrator here is Shibami - currently a university student - who mourns for her older brother Yoshihiro who had died a while ago in a car accident; popular with women, Yoshihiro is ultimately attra...more
the first novella Night and Night's Travelers is superb and among the best shorter (~65 pages) pieces of fiction I've ever read; the narrator here is Shibami - currently a university student - who mourns for her older brother Yoshihiro who had died a while ago in a car accident; popular with women, Yoshihiro is ultimately attra...more
Sep 13, 2016Ursula Florene rated it it was amazing · review of another edition
What distinguish Japanese writers from other countries'? That lingering emptiness in your heart once the book reaches its final page.
And Asleep is one of them. My encounter with Banana Yoshimoto's work happened years ago; when I found out my lecturer was the book translator-editor. Well, not Asleep but Kitchen ; which also bring Yoshimoto's name to international reader.
At that time, I was EXTREMELY familiar with Murakami's work and literally linked all Japanese literature to his. In my mind...more
Mar 05, 2016Vonia rated it liked it · review of another editionAnd Asleep is one of them. My encounter with Banana Yoshimoto's work happened years ago; when I found out my lecturer was the book translator-editor. Well, not Asleep but Kitchen ; which also bring Yoshimoto's name to international reader.
At that time, I was EXTREMELY familiar with Murakami's work and literally linked all Japanese literature to his. In my mind...more
Shelves: short-stories, dreams, romance, picturesque-prose, ghosts-spiritual, death-grieving, unrequited-love, mystery, psychology, marriage
Asleep tells the stories of three women, all bewitched into a spiritual sleep. One, mourning a lost love, finds herself sleepwalking at night. Another, embarking on a relationship with a man whose wife is in a coma, finds herself unable to stay awake. The third finds her sleep haunted.
I tire a little of saying the same thing every single time I read a Banana Yoshimoto book. (I am proud to name this my sixth!) I read this right after 'Kitchen', and they are both equally beautiful, obviously from...more
I tire a little of saying the same thing every single time I read a Banana Yoshimoto book. (I am proud to name this my sixth!) I read this right after 'Kitchen', and they are both equally beautiful, obviously from...more
Jan 30, 2011Mark rated it it was ok · review of another edition
moody flighty woman talks about herself and weird people in her life. 3 stories in one book. this is the second time i've read this book. if you like weird stuff and weird people read Banana Yoshimoto. For example ... 'I felt like I'd just woken up a moment ago, and everything looked so clear and beautiful it was frightening. Everything really was gorgeous. Those crowds of people walking through the night, the light from the paper lanterns dotting the arcade, the line of my boyfriends forehead a...more
May 23, 2014Plainqoma rated it liked it · review of another edition
Beautifully sad and lonely yet at the same time it will haunt you. The stories rich with emotional states of the main characters. I adore the way she conveys her stories from past, future to present without making the readers confused.
' I really fall for that kind of thing, for good manners. I have this feeling that people like that never do anything truly awful to anyone else. '
Sep 20, 2018Zibbi rated it liked it · review of another edition' I really fall for that kind of thing, for good manners. I have this feeling that people like that never do anything truly awful to anyone else. '
Shelves: collections, paperback-hardbound, 2018, review-project, japanese-literature
I used to buy every Asian author’s work on a first-dibs online bookstore. Every Sunday, the seller will post the items available at 8 PM sharp. The first to respond ‘Accio!’ will have the book reserved under their name. Anything by Haruki Murakami’s and Banana Yoshimoto’s is popular and rapidly ‘Accio-ed’ away. It took weeks, months and a lot of sprint typing to get a copy. After almost two years of collecting dust in my shelf, I mustered the courage to pick it up for reading.
The book is a colle...more
Jan 07, 2019Matt rated it really liked it · review of another edition
I didn’t enjoy this as a whole as much as I did “Kitchen”, though that’s not to say I didn’t enjoy it. It is three short stories compiled into one collection with “Asleep” being the third. Of the three, “Asleep” might actually have been my least favorite. I really loved “Night and Night’s Travelers”, the first story, and rather enjoyed “Love Songs”, the second story. That being said, much like with “Kitchen”, I’ve not read many authors who can make the mundane aspects of life sing with such an a...more
Aug 23, 2019Cătălin rated it it was amazing · review of another edition
Just like Kitchen, this book is filled to the brim with depression, loss, and loneliness. Looking back now, when I read Kitchen, I couldn't really appreciate its beauty because I wasn't in the right mindset. But these past weeks I felt in the right mood for Banana Yoshimoto's book. I thoroughly enjoyed the stories, especially the first, and the second ones.
'...suddenly I started feeling like the Cheshire cat, as if there were nothing left of me now but my grinning face, hanging there in the dark...more
Apr 08, 2019Pragya rated it liked it · review of another edition
3.5 stars
Jul 23, 2017Yon Nyan (BiblioNyan) rated it liked it · review of another edition
Asleep is an #OwnVoices Japanese literature novel that’s a part of the magical realism genre. It’s also a small collection of three short stories written by Banana Yoshimoto, who’s a female author.
The first two stories were very interesting to me and I enjoyed them immensely. The third story, which is the title story, did not appeal to me at all once I began reading it. In this post, you can find mini-reviews for each story with their ratings, as well as my overall rating for the book as a who...more
The first two stories were very interesting to me and I enjoyed them immensely. The third story, which is the title story, did not appeal to me at all once I began reading it. In this post, you can find mini-reviews for each story with their ratings, as well as my overall rating for the book as a who...more
Jan 23, 2013MJ rated it liked it · review of another edition
Asleep is actually three thematically related stories dealing with death, love, and yes, sleep.
In “Night and Night’s Travelers,” Shibami and her family deal with the aftermath of her brother’s death. This is the only story in which the narrator is not also our sleeper. Instead, Shibami serves as the link between two of her brother’s former lovers. Sarah is an American exchange student who had a relationship with Yoshihiro both in Japan and back in Boston. Mari is a cousin who realized she and Yo...more
Oct 05, 2018Pragati rated it it was amazing · review of another editionIn “Night and Night’s Travelers,” Shibami and her family deal with the aftermath of her brother’s death. This is the only story in which the narrator is not also our sleeper. Instead, Shibami serves as the link between two of her brother’s former lovers. Sarah is an American exchange student who had a relationship with Yoshihiro both in Japan and back in Boston. Mari is a cousin who realized she and Yo...more
Shelves: magical-realism, japaneselit, women-writers
Banana Yoshimoto has done brilliant job, by binding together stories of three women, who in some or the other way are bewitched by 'Sleep'. A sleep so magical that they are unable to distinguish between the reality and dream. One woman is sleepwalking and reminiscing about her dead lover, other woman has developed a deep relation with a man whose wife is in coma and the last one is a woman who is haunted by the memory of a dead woman, both of these loved same man. The story gives the touch of Ka...more
Nov 03, 2014Klerik rated it it was ok · review of another edition
I think this was kind of a miss for me. I really like the aesthetic I think the author was going for, and I think all three stories had great potential. While most of the protagonists act in fairly strange ways at times, they also manage to pull off small, beautiful, really human moments. For instance (in Asleep), I found the protagonist's fear of going back to a sleepy existence after her temporary job is over to be one such moment.
On the other hand, I also found myself sort of underwhelmed at...more
On the other hand, I also found myself sort of underwhelmed at...more
Dec 16, 2014Yume Kitasei rated it really liked it · review of another edition
This book is really more of a collection of three novellas with the same underlying themes (drowsiness in response to loss). One is about a girl who has recently lost her brother; the second is about a woman who is driven to drink herself to sleep every night over a loss of which she is not even consciously aware; and the last is a story about a woman who has lost a friend and personal direction, and who has been struggling to stay awake ever since.
The last story is the most powerful - it captu...more
The last story is the most powerful - it captu...more
Feb 05, 2015Kyle Muntz rated it liked it · review of another edition
Not as disappointing as Lizard, but I couldn't help get the feeling Yoshimoto was just on autopilot with these three novellas, though they still had the incredible passages on love, death, friendship and memory I've come to expect from her writing. Despite the heavy slice-of-life elements she always uses, I still felt each of them should have amounted to more, and (also like Lizard) there were fewer characters who had a real presence in the stories. Some of the expected Yoshimoto elements--dead...more
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Banana Yoshimoto (よしもと ばなな or 吉本 ばなな) is the pen name of Mahoko Yoshimoto (吉本 真秀子), a Japanese contemporary writer. She writes her name in hiragana. (See also 吉本芭娜娜 (Chinese).)
Along with having a famous father, poet Takaaki Yoshimoto, Banana's sister, Haruno Yoiko, is a well-known cartoonist in Japan. Growing up in a liberal family, she learned the value of independence from a young age.
She gradua...more
Along with having a famous father, poet Takaaki Yoshimoto, Banana's sister, Haruno Yoiko, is a well-known cartoonist in Japan. Growing up in a liberal family, she learned the value of independence from a young age.
She gradua...more
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