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.Readers love Banana Yoshimoto:⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'I love her ability to make the mundane glorious and the supernatural and unbelievably unlikely commonplace'⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'Yoshimoto is there to show us that there is beauty in the simplest things and truth in life's most brutal moments'⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'She paints a picture with her words unlike anyone else I've ever read'