A Ozeki, Ruth L. creator text bibliography Fiction. nyu Edinburgh Viking Canongate 2022 2013 monographic eng

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455 pages ; 20 cm ""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"-- Ruth Ozeki. Includes bibliographical references (pages 419-420). AAL a-ja--- n-cn-bc Teenage girls Fiction Buddhist nuns Fiction Women authors Fiction FICTION / Literary Tokyo (Japan) Fiction Vancouver Island (B.C.) Fiction PS3565.Z45 T35 2013 813.54 FIC019000 9781838856250 9780670026630 2012039878 Ayesha Abed Library DLC 260518 20260518172633.0 45793 eng