Sleepless

For two decades the author has been an insomniac, and here she sets out everything she has tried: drugs of every kind, meditation and sport, sleep clinics, shamans and gadgets, some of it absurdly funny. Behind it all lies a question: when she cannot sleep, who is the one lying awake? That other self becomes the subject of an unusual autobiography. She looks for fellow sufferers among writers from Kafka and Woolf to Borges and Darwish, recalls sleepless nights in hotels across the world, and travels to Rwanda, where remembering the genocide keeps people awake in another way.

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About the book

Form

Nonfiction

Length

306 pages in the original

Genres

Autofiction (assigned by AI)

First published

2021 by P.O.L

Author's age

52 when first published

ISBN

9782818053645 (original)

9781804270653 (Fitzcarraldo Editions, United Kingdom)

9781635901771 (Semiotext(e), United States)