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A Tale for the Time Being

A Tale for the Time Being 2

by Ruth Ozeki
Paperback
Publication Date: 07/03/2013
5/5 Rating 2 Reviews

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Nao lives in Tokyo. She is sixteen, and has decided to write a diary before she kills herself. She has plenty of material-school bullies, depressed parents-but she particularly wants to chronicle the life of her great-grandmother, Jiko, a Buddhist nun. And eventually, Nao thinks, her diary will find its reader.



Ruth lives with her husband on the Pacific coast of Canada. A few months after the 2010 tsunami she finds a Hello Kitty lunchbox washed up on the shore. It contains a diary...




`This is the simple story of a girl, her great-grandmother and the novelist who becomes enthralled with their tale. But this simple story draws from the deep currents of our times, from quantum physics, Japanese ghost tales, suicide trends, first-person accounts of kamikaze fighters during World War II, thirteenth-century Buddhist texts and recent pop culture. It is a meditation on impermanence, and the intimate relationship between past and present, fact and fiction, and time and text.' Ruth Ozeki
ISBN:
9781922079183
9781922079183
Category:
Contemporary fiction
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
07-03-2013
Language:
English
Publisher:
Text Publishing
Country of origin:
Australia
Pages:
528
Dimensions (mm):
234x153x31mm
Weight:
0.56kg
Ruth Ozeki

Ruth Ozeki was born and raised in Connecticut by an American father and a Japanese mother. She is a novelist, filmmaker and Zen Buddhist priest whose books have garnered international acclaim. Her first two novels, My Year of Meats (1998) and All Over Creation (2003), have been translated into eleven languages and published in fourteen countries. Her third novel, A Tale for the Time Being (2013), won the LA Times Book Prize, was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award, and has been published in over thirty countries.

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The character Ruth (also a writer) researches and provides information around Nao's diary (which she found washed up amidst the flotsam and jetsam - I guess Nao's diary would be categorised as flotsam) and opens up a different world through the Japanese terms she finds within, as she annotates and researches she informs us, if you don't already know what a hentai is you'll find out. It's an intriguing read as Ruth continues to pick up the diary compelled by concern for her welfare to find out what happened to Nao. Nao tells us not only her own story but the story of her family and her amazing and inspiring great grandmother who is a buddhist nun with "supa powa":)

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Ruth Ozeki’s A Tale for the Time Being is one of my favourite books i’ve read in 2014. There are two stories interwoven through a diary, the lives of the author and a teenage girl in Japan the author of the diary. I didn’t want the story to end. It’s interesting, historical, funny, and sometimes disturbing. Read it if you like modern tales with filled with history.

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