| TITLE: |
A tale for the time being / Ruth Ozeki. |
| AUTHOR: |
Ozeki, Ruth L. |
| PUBLISHED: |
New York : Viking, 2013. |
| DESCRIPTION: |
422 pages ; 24 cm |
| NOTES: |
Includes bibliographical references. |
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""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." |
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In Tokyo, sixteen-year-old Nao has decided there's only one escape from her aching loneliness and her classmates' bullying. |
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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. |
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A diary is Nao's only solace--and will touch lives in ways she can scarcely imagine. |
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Across the Pacific, we meet Ruth, a novelist living on aremote island who discovers a collection of artifacts washed ashore in a |
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Hello Kitty lunchbox possibly debris from the devastating 2011 tsunami. |
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As the mystery of its contents unfolds, Ruth is pulled into the past, into Nao's drama and her unknown fate, andforward into her own future. |
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Full of Ozeki's signature humor and deeply engaged with the relationship between writer and reader, |
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past and present, fact and fiction, quantum physics, history, and mythe, |
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A Tale for the Time Being is a brilliantly inventive, beguiling story of our shared humanity and the search for home"-- $cProvided by publisher. |
| SUBJECT: |
Teenage girls --Fiction. |
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Buddhist nuns--Fiction. |
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Women authors --Fiction. |
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Tokyo (Japan)--Fiction. |
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Vancouver Island (B.C.) --Fiction. |
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