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A Tale for the Time Being

Ruth Ozeki

Hardcover | Pages: 422 pages

Rating: 4.01 | 78492 Users | 10323 Reviews

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Original Title:	A Tale for the Time Being
ISBN:	0670026638 (ISBN13: 9780670026630)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Naoko Yasutani, Ruth Ozeki, Haruki Yasutani, Jiko Yasutani
Setting:	Tokyo(Japan) Cortes Island, British Columbia(Canada)
Literary Awards:	Booker Prize Nominee (2013), Sunburst Award for Adult (2014), Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction (2013), PEN Open Book Award Nominee for Longlist (2014), National Book Critics Circle Award Nominee for Fiction (2013) The Kitschies for Red Tentacle (Novel) (2013), Andrew Carnegie Medal Nominee for Fiction (2014), Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Fiction (2013), Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature for Adult Fiction (2013)

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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, but before she ends it all, Nao 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 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 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 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.

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Title	:	A Tale for the Time Being
Author	:	Ruth Ozeki
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 422 pages
Published	:	March 12th 2013 by Viking (first published March 11th 2013)
Categories	:	Fiction. Cultural. Japan. Historical. Historical Fiction. Magical Realism. Contemporary

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If a train that travels 3 kilometers per minute goes y kilometers in x minutes, thenetc., my mind would go numb and all I could think about was how a body would look at the moment of impact, and the distance a head might be thrown on the tracks, and how far the blood would spatter. Listen up. The world doesn't live on humanity. Japan isnt a great thing to be a free anything, because free just means all alone and out of it. Listen up. The world doesn't give a fuck about you. "To a writer, this

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. - Ruth Ozeki, A Tale For The Time BeingA Tale For The Time Being is a deceptively simple title. I took it at face value and considered that I would be entertained by a story just for now, perhaps for a little while. As it turned out, the title has a totally different meaning. This tale is an unusual message in a bottle type of story that reaches magically across time to

This is a complex book, combining autobiography with fantasy, history and fiction. Ruth Ozeki is the protagonist and the tale starts where she finds a Hello Kitty lunchbox which contained a faded-red English diary, a bundle of handwritten Japanese letters and a wrist watch of a sixteen year old girl in a plastic bag on Jap Ranch beach in the Desolation Sound near British Columbia. Actually, the cover of the book was that of À La Cherche Du Temps Perdu by Marcel Proust. To Ruth's utter shock and

What a ride. This novel sucked me in and then spit me out, leaving me gasping as it did. I can't say this book is perfect. It's probably a bit flawed, as many novels are, but with the totality of it meaning so much more than any flaws might take away. None of these flaws come from the writing itself, though, and if you feel some things here and there are a bit slow, please be patient -- Zen Buddhism is a big theme after all -- it picks up quickly and flows again, almost immediately.There are

3.5 starsSitting here at the bistro with my best friends, and we all order the same exotic dish. They're licking their chops and raving about it. Im liking it okay, but I get a few bursts of flavor that make me scrunch up my face. Sure, the sauce is great, but it's taking me forever to chew this meat. I'm so busy trying to digest it, I really can't even talk yet. This is an award-winning dish by a grand chef. What is WRONG with me? How come my friends dont have to chew so much? Isn't the meat on



Wonderful tale of a woman writer in a remote coastal village in British Columbia, Ruth, whose writers block gets extended when she starts reading the journals of a Japanese girl, Nao, which washes up on the shore in a waterproof box. Ruth becomes totally attuned to Naos vivid writing about her life in Tokyo after a childhood in Silicon Valley, her resilience in the face of extreme bullying at school, her concerns for her unemployed and suicidally depressed father, and her enchantment with her