A brilliant, unforgettable, and long-awaited novel from bestselling author Ruth Ozeki
âA time being is someone who lives in time, and that means you, and me, and every one of us who is, or was, or ever will be.â
In Tokyo, sixteen-year-old Nao has decided thereâs only one escape from her aching loneliness and her classmatesâ bullying. But before she ends it all, Nao plans to document the life of her great-grandmother, a Buddhist nun whoâs lived more than a century. A diary is Naoâs only solaceâand will touch lives in a ways she can scarcely imagine.
Across the Pacific, we meet Ruth, a novelist living on a remote island who discovers a collection of artifacts washed ashore in a Hello Kitty lunchboxâpossibly debris from the devastating 2011 tsunami. As the mystery of its contents unfolds, Ruth is pulled into the past, into Naoâs drama and her unknown fate, and forward into her own future.
Full of Ozekiâs signature humour and deeply engaged with the relationship between writer and reader, past and present, fact and fiction, quantum physics, history, and myth, A Tale for the Time Being is a brilliantly inventive, beguiling story of our shared humanity and the search for home.
Categories:
- Literature & Fiction
- Literary
Publisher : Viking
Author : RuthOzeki
Language : English
Edition : Fourth Printing
Published :2013-03-12
Number Of Pages : 432
Binding : hardcover
ISBN-10 : 0670067040
ISBN-13 : 9780670067046
Item weight : 1.46 lb
Dimensions : 1.42 in x 6.14 in x 9.13 in
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