A Tale for the Time Being

Ruth Ozeki

ISBN 10: 0857867962 / ISBN 13: 9780857867964

Published by Canongate Books, Edinburgh, 2013

About this Item

First published in 2013, A Tale for the Time Being is Ruth Ozeki's acclaimed novel exploring memory, identity, fate and the unexpected connections that link lives across continents and generations. The story begins when a diary, believed to have drifted across the Pacific following the 2011 Japanese tsunami, is discovered on the coast of British Columbia. Through its pages, Ozeki weaves together the lives of a troubled Japanese teenager and a novelist, combining literary fiction with reflections on Zen Buddhism, science, history and the nature of time itself. Shortlisted for the 2013 Man Booker Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award, the novel is widely regarded as Ozeki's finest work and one of the most distinctive novels of the twenty-first century.

A Tale for the Time Being, by Ruth Ozeki.

Published by Canongate Books, Edinburgh, March 2013. First edition, first impression. Signed by the author. A special signed limited edition issued by the publisher, featuring the author's name printed across the exposed sewn sections of the binding. Still sealed in original Publisher's shrinkwrap.

An as new/fine hardback.

Text in English.

Dimensions: approximately 235mm high x 155mm wide x 36mm deep.

Weight: approximately 706g (unpacked).

Seller Inventory # LAN10318

Bibliographic Details

• Title: A Tale for the Time Being
• Publisher: Canongate Books, Edinburgh
• Publication Date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0857867962
• ISBN 13: 9780857867964
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition, Special Edition
• Printing: 1st Printing
• Condition: As New
• Dimensions: 155W x 235H x 36D millimeters 155 millimeters width by 235 millimeters height by 36 millimeters depth
• Weight: 706 grams
• Seller catalogs:
  • Science Fiction

About this title

Synopsis

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. A diary is Nao's only solace—and will touch lives in a 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 humour 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.

About the Author

Ruth Ozeki is an award-winning novelist and filmmaker. Her third novel, A Tale for the Time Being won the 2013 Independent Booksellers Book Award and the Kitchies Red Tentacle Award, and was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2013 and the National Book Critics Award for Fiction. She is also the author of My Year of Meats and All Over Creation. Ozeki was born and raised in Connecticut, by an American father and Japanese mother. In June 2010 she was ordained as a Zen Buddhist priest. She divides her time between British Columbia and New York. Follow @ozekiland on Twitter | www.ruthozeki.com