A Tale for the Time Being SIGNED FIRST EDITION

Ozeki, Ruth

ISBN 10: 0670026638 / ISBN 13: 9780670026630

Published by Viking Books, New York, 2013

About this Item

First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by the author in blue ink to title page. Stated first edition, with full number line indicating first printing. 9 1/4" X 6 1/4". 422pp. Very mild shelf wear to unclipped dust jacket designed by Jim Tierney. Bound in full speckled paper over boards, with waves stamped in blind to upper board and spine lettered in silver. Binding is sound. Pages are clean and unmarked. A very presentable first printing of bestselling author Ruth Ozeki's A Tale for the Time Being, shortlisted for the Booker Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award. ABOUT THIS BOOK: "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 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, A Tale for the Time Being is a brilliantly inventive, beguiling story of our shared humanity and the search for home.(Publisher). Seller Inventory # 16731

Bibliographic Details

Title: A Tale for the Time Being SIGNED FIRST ...

Publisher: Viking Books, New York

Publication Date: 2013

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very good +

Dust Jacket Condition: Very good +

Signed: Signed by Author(s)

Edition: First Edition.

About this title

Synopsis:

A brilliant, unforgettable novel from bestselling author Ruth Ozeki—shortlisted for the Booker Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award

“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 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, 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 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. Her critically acclaimed independent films, including Halving the Bones, have been screened at Sundance and aired on PBS. She is affiliated with the Brooklyn Zen Center and the Everyday Zen Foundation. She lives in British Columbia and New York City.

Visit www.ruthozeki.com and follow @ozekiland on Twitter.