Sleep

Murakami story about a woman who stops sleeping for weeks. Samantha read it while she herself was struggling to sleep and with a protagonist her age; it shook her out of self-absorbed non-fiction reading. Tamir later says it is about someone who refuses sleep until she succumbs and entities take her, mirroring a fearful relationship to sleep.

Where it appears 2

• 
  the forbidden wonderland of murakamiEp 10 · with Salih Yayar

  Murakami short story Tamir calls 'a really, really good' one.

  Listen at 1:32:05Read it in the transcript
• 
  the realm of dreamsEp 4 · with Samantha Chung

  Listen at 13:48Read it in the transcript

Connections

Written by

• Haruki Murakami

Referenced by

• Haruki Murakami

Related

• Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman

Mentioned alongside

• Murakami story as homeworkSamantha Chung · Ep 4 · 13:48

  Within hours of meeting Samantha at his studio, Tamir gave her Murakami's 'Sleep' from Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman as homework due the next week. She took it as a sign from the universe…