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Overview. A Tale for the Time Being is a 2013 work of literary fiction written by Japanese-American novelist Ruth Ozeki. Told in four parts, the book goes back and forth between the stories of two protagonists: sixteen-year-old Naoko “Nao” Yasutani, who is writing about her life in Tokyo during the early 2000s, and Ruth, a Japanese-American ...
Mar 12, 2013 · Ruth Ozeki is a novelist, filmmaker, and Zen Buddhist priest. She is the award-winning author of three novels, My Year of Meats, All Over Creation, and A Tale for the Time Being, which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award.
Mar 13, 2013 · Alan Cheuse reviews the novel A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki. MELISSA BLOCK, HOST: And finally this hour, a new novel that tells the story of two lives intersecting across an ocean after ...
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Mar 21, 2013 · Ruth Ozeki opens her third novel, “A Tale for the Time Being,” with a small deception — or, more accurately, a sleight of hand. Forgoing context or explanation, she plunges us into the diary ...
Open Preview. A Tale for the Time Being Quotes Showing 1-30 of 378. “Sometimes when she told stories about the past her eyes would get teary from all the memories she had, but they weren't tears. She wasn't crying. They were just the memories, leaking out.”. ― Ruth Ozeki, A Tale for the Time Being. 321 likes.
Dec 31, 2013 · Read an Excerpt. Praise for A Tale for the Time Being “Nao’s lively voice, by turns breezy, petulant, funny, sad, and teenage-girl wise, reaches the reader in the pages of her diary, which, as Ruth Ozeki begins to fold and pleat her intricate parable of a novel, washes ashore, safe in a Hello Kitty lunchbox, on a small Canadian island off the coast of British Columbia. . . .
