Naked Sleeper
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By the bestselling, National Book Award-winning author of THE FRIEND
The story of a woman's search for self-knowledge, for understanding of others, and for an answer to the imperative question: How should she live?
Nona longs for a life of purpose, order and dignity. But despite all her aspirations, this ideal constantly eludes her. At an artists' retreat, where she plans to finally get down to writing a book, she meets a man who she intuitively mistrusts - and yet begins an intense affair with him. Despite being happily married, she then flies across the country to pursue him, and this sets of a series of events which will force her to examine everything she believed she wanted.
Never before published in the UK, Naked Sleeper is about the inescapable and sometimes unendurable complexities of love and family.
'A terrific novel' DWIGHT GARNER, NEW YORK TIMES
'Once you discover Sigrid Nunez, you don't look back' ANNE ENRIGHT
'A story that abounds in vivid moments and moods' NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW
'An enlightening literary adventure' PEOPLE
The story of a woman's search for self-knowledge, for understanding of others, and for an answer to the imperative question: How should she live?
Nona longs for a life of purpose, order and dignity. But despite all her aspirations, this ideal constantly eludes her. At an artists' retreat, where she plans to finally get down to writing a book, she meets a man who she intuitively mistrusts - and yet begins an intense affair with him. Despite being happily married, she then flies across the country to pursue him, and this sets of a series of events which will force her to examine everything she believed she wanted.
Never before published in the UK, Naked Sleeper is about the inescapable and sometimes unendurable complexities of love and family.
'A terrific novel' DWIGHT GARNER, NEW YORK TIMES
'Once you discover Sigrid Nunez, you don't look back' ANNE ENRIGHT
'A story that abounds in vivid moments and moods' NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW
'An enlightening literary adventure' PEOPLE
- Published: Jul 14 2026
- Pages: 240
- ISBN: 9780349021478
Press Reviews
- Dwight Garner, New York Times
A terrific novel
- New York Times Book Review
With her well-pitched prose and eye for telling contemporary details, Nunez transforms Naked Sleeper into a story that abounds in vivid moments and moods
- People
An enlightening literary adventure
- Time
Nunez limns Nona's search for self with some impressively elegant writing, which gives this book its true appeal