A brilliant, unforgettable novel from bestselling author Ruth
Ozeki--shortlisted for the Booker Prize
""A 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.""
In Tokyo, sixteen-year-old Nao has decided there's only one escape
from her aching loneliness and her classmates' bullying. But before
she ends it all, Nao first plans to document the life of her great
grandmother, a Buddhist nun who's lived more than a century. A
diary is Nao's only solace--and will touch lives in 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 lunchbox--possibly debris from the
devastating 2011 tsunami. As the mystery of its contents unfolds,
Ruth is pulled into the past, into Nao's drama and her unknown
fate, and forward into her own future.
Full of Ozeki's signature humor 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.
General
| Imprint: |
Large Print Press
|
| Country of origin: |
United States |
| Release date: |
2014 |
| First published: |
2014 |
| Authors: |
Ruth Ozeki
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| Dimensions: |
211 x 140 x 38mm (L x W x T) |
| Format: |
Paperback - Trade
|
| Pages: |
681 |
| Edition: |
Large type / large print edition |
| ISBN-13: |
978-1-59413-688-7 |
| Categories: |
Books >
Fiction >
General & literary fiction >
Modern fiction
Promotions
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| LSN: |
1-59413-688-2 |
| Barcode: |
9781594136887 |
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