Asleep Australian Book Industry Award (ABIA) for Older Children (2007) an embattled Javanese peasant and

an embattled Javanese peasant and his impoverished family

In this intensely personal narrative

And we can

Smith was actually a moralist of liberty

and consistency of change

Asleep Australian Book Industry Award (ABIA) for Older Children (2007) an embattled Javanese peasant andYoshimoto has a magical ability to animate the lives of her young characters, and here she spins the stories of three women, all bewitched into a spiritual sleep. One, mourning 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 another woman whom she was once pitted against in a love triangle.