A Tale For The Time Being

Ozeki, Ruth

ISBN 10: 0670067040 / ISBN 13: 9780670067046

Published by Viking, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 2013

About this Item

The book is inscribed and signed by Ruth Ozeki on the full title page.

Seller Inventory # 018343

Bibliographic Details

• Title: A Tale For The Time Being
• Publisher: Viking, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
• Publication Date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0670067040
• ISBN 13: 9780670067046
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Printing: 4th Printing
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Signed: Inscribed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Signed
  • Fiction

About this title

Synopsis

A brilliant, unforgettable, and long-awaited novel from bestselling author Ruth Ozeki

“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 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 writer and filmmaker. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, The Shambhala Sun, and More, among other publications. In June 2010, she was ordained as a Zen Buddhist priest and is affiliated with the Brooklyn Zen Center and the Everyday Zen Foundation. She lives in British Columbia and New York City.