02958nam a2200433 i 4500 45793 BD-DhAAL 20260518172633.0 260518t20222013nyu b 000 1 eng 2012039878 9781838856250 9780670026630 17518861 DLC eng DLC rda DLC BD-DhAAL pcc a-ja--- n-cn-bc PS3565.Z45 T35 2013 813.54 23 FIC019000 Ozeki, Ruth L. 28492 A tale for the time being / Ruth Ozeki. A tale for the time being Edinburgh : Viking ; Canongate, 2022. 455 pages ; 20 cm Includes bibliographical references (pages 419-420). ""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"-- Provided by publisher. AAL Donated by Embassy of Japan in Bangladesh, Read Japan Project 2025, The Tokyo Foundation, supported by The Nippon Foundation. 45793 Teenage girls Fiction. 5887 Buddhist nuns Fiction. 60837 Women authors Fiction. 60838 FICTION / Literary. Tokyo (Japan) Fiction. 6187 Vancouver Island (B.C.) Fiction. 60839 Fiction. Ayesha Abed Library General Stacks ddc BK 47977 47977 0 0 ddc 0 813_540000000000000_OZE 0 79224 BRACUL BRACUL 2026-05-18 Donated by Embassy of Japan in Bangladesh, Read Japan Project 2025, The Tokyo Foundation, supported by The Nippon Foundation. 0 813.54 OZE 3010045793 2026-05-18 1 2026-05-18 BK Donated copy received from Embassy of Japan in Bangladesh, Read Japan Project 2025, The Tokyo Foundation, supported by The Nippon Foundation on 08 April 2026; £9.99 Price available in the Book.