Book Details
⚡️Book Title : A Tale for the Time Being
⚡Book Author : Ruth Ozeki
⚡Page : 422 pages
⚡Published March 12th 2013 by Viking (first published March 11th 2013)
A Tale for the Time Being - In Tokyo, sixteen-year-old Nao has decided theres only one escape from her aching loneliness and her classmates bullying, but before she ends it all, Nao plans to document the life of her great-grandmother, a Buddhist nun whos lived more than a century. A diary is Naos only solaceand 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 lunchboxpossibly debris from the devastating 2011 tsunami. As the mystery of its contents unfolds, Ruth is pulled into the past, into Naos drama and her unknown fate, and forward into her own future. Full of Ozekis 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.
A Tale for the Time Being
In Tokyo, sixteen-year-old Nao has decided theres only one escape from her aching loneliness and her classmates bullying, but before she ends it all, Nao plans to document the life of her great-grandmother, a Buddhist nun whos lived more than a century. A diary is Naos only solaceand 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 lunchboxpossibly debris from the devastating 2011 tsunami. As the mystery of its contents unfolds, Ruth is pulled into the past, into Naos drama and her unknown fate, and forward into her own future. Full of Ozekis 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.
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