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Product Identifiers
PublisherPenguin Publishing Group
ISBN-100143124870
ISBN-139780143124870
eBay Product ID (ePID)167463959
Product Key Features
Book TitleTale for the Time Being : a Novel
Number of Pages448 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicPsychological, Fantasy / Contemporary, Contemporary Women, Literary, Asian American
Publication Year2013
IllustratorYes
GenreFiction
AuthorRuth Ozeki
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height1.1 in
Item Weight16.4 Oz
Item Length8.4 in
Item Width5.4 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
Dewey Edition23
TitleLeadingA
Grade FromTwelfth Grade
Dewey Decimal813.6
SynopsisA brilliant, unforgettable novel from bestselling author Ruth Ozeki, author of The Book of Form and Emptiness Finalist for the Booker Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award "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., A brilliant, unforgettable novel from bestselling author Ruth Ozeki--shortlisted for the Booker Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award "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.
LC Classification NumberPS3565.Z45T3 2013
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- 06. Sep. 2016
Gripping book
The author weaves an intriguing tale between two very different venues. It is a fascinating look at cultures, relationships, loves lost and found. I recommend it.Bestätigter Kauf: JaArtikelzustand: Gebraucht
- 28. Okt. 2023
A TALE FOR THE TIME BEING
Ruth Ozeki is a brilliant and a brilliant and unusual writer. No two books are the same and all are compelling .Bestätigter Kauf: JaArtikelzustand: Gebraucht
- 10. Okt. 2021
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- 14. Sep. 2021
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- 12. Aug. 2021
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