A Tale for the Time Being [electronic resource]
Ozeki, Ruth2013
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In the wake of the 2011 tsunami, Ruth discovers a Hello Kitty lunchbox washed up on the shore of her beach home in British Columbia. Within it lies a diary that expresses the hopes, heartbreak and dreams of a young girl desperate for someone to understand her. Each turn of the page pulls Ruth deeper into the mystery of Nao's life, and forever changes her in a way neither could foresee. Weaving across continents and decades, A Tale for the Time Being is an extraordinary novel about our shared humanity and the search for home.
Main title:
A Tale for the Time Being [electronic resource] / Ruth Ozeki
Author:
Ozeki, Ruth, Author
Imprint:
[Place of publication not identified] : Canongate Books, 2013
Collation:
1 online resource (1 text file)
System details:
Mode of access: Internet
Biography/History:
Ruth Ozeki is a novelist, filmmaker and Zen Buddhist priest. She is the author of The Book of Form and Emptiness which won the Women's Prize for Fiction in 2022, My Year of Meats, All Over Creation and A Tale for the Time Being, which was shortlisted for the 2013 Man Booker Prize and translated into 28 languages. Ozeki has also written a short memoir, Timecode of a Face. She is affiliated with the Everyday Zen Foundation and lives in Northampton, Massachusetts, where she teaches creative writing at Smith College and is the Grace Jarcho Ross 1933 Professor of Humanities. ruthozeki.com
Awards:
National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist (The National Book Critics Circle)Man Booker Prize for Fiction Nominee (The Booker Prize Foundation)Notable Books for Adults (Notable Books Council)
ISBN:
9780857867988
Language:
English
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BRN:
2764465
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