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A Tale for the Time Being is a metafictional novel by Ruth Ozeki narrated by two characters, a sixteen-year-old Japanese American girl living in Tokyo who keeps a diary, and a Japanese American writer living on an island off the coast of British Columbia who finds the diary of the young woman washed ashore some time after the 2011 tsunami that ...
Dec 31, 2013 · 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.
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Mar 11, 2013 · 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 plans to document the life of her great-grandmother, a Buddhist nun who's lived more than a century.
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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.
- Paperback
A brilliant, unforgettable novel from bestselling author Ruth Ozeki — shortlisted for the Booker Prize. In Tokyo, sixteen-year-old Nao has decided there’s only one escape from her aching loneliness and her classmates’ bullying.
Apr 1, 2013 · In Ruth Ozeki’s “Tale for the Time Being,” a teenage Japanese girl’s diary washes ashore off the Canadian coast and is found by an introspective novelist.
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Mar 12, 2013 · A Tale for the Time Being: A Novel. Ruth Ozeki. Penguin, Mar 12, 2013 - Fiction - 432 pages. A brilliant, unforgettable novel from bestselling author Ruth Ozeki, author of The Book of Form and...
