A tale for the time being: a novel
(Book)
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, this is a brilliantly inventive, beguiling story of our shared humanity and the search for home.
Ozeki, R. (2013). A tale for the time being: a novel. New York, New York, Penguin Books.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Ozeki, Ruth, 1956-. 2013. A Tale for the Time Being: A Novel. New York, New York, Penguin Books.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Ozeki, Ruth, 1956-, A Tale for the Time Being: A Novel. New York, New York, Penguin Books, 2013.
MLA Citation (style guide)Ozeki, Ruth. A Tale for the Time Being: A Novel. New York, New York, Penguin Books, 2013.
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