Ruth Ozeki
In Tokyo, sixteen-year-old Nao has decided thereâ€™s only one escape from her aching loneliness and her classmatesâ€™ bullying, but before she ends it all, Nao plans to document the life of her great-grandmother, a Buddhist nun whoâ€™s lived more than a century. A diary is Naoâ€™s only solaceâ€”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 lunchboxâ€”possibly debris from the devastating 2011 tsunami. As the mystery of its contents unfolds, Ruth is pulled into the past, into Naoâ€™s drama and her unknown fate, and forward into her own future.Â ,Full of Ozekiâ€™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.
Fiction,Cultural,Japan,Magical Realism,Historical,Historical Fiction,Contemporary,Literary Fiction,Audiobook,Cultural,Asia,Adult Fiction,Adult
A Tale for the Time Being