A Tale for the Time Being

A Tale for the Time Being
Author Ruth L. Ozeki
Country USA
Language English
Publisher Viking
Publication date
 March 12, 2013
Pages 432pp
ISBN 978-0-670-02663-0
OCLC 841015817
813.54
LC Class 2012-39878

A Tale for the Time Being is a novel by Ruth L. Ozeki narrated by two characters, a sixteen-year-old girl in Tokyo who keeps a diary, and a writer living on an island off British Columbia who finds the diary washed up on shore some time after the 2011 tsunami that devastated Japan.[1]

Overview

A teenage girl in Tokyo sees no escape from the bullying of her classmates, and her sense of isolation is deepened by an unhappy family life. Before she takes her own life, Nao is determined to document the life of her great grandmother, a Buddhist nun who is more than one hundred years old. Nao finds comfort in writing in her diary, addressing an imagined reader and friend.

On the other side of the Pacific, Ruth, a novelist living on a small island off the coast of British Columbia, finds a Hello Kitty lunchbox washed up on the beach—possibly debris from the tsunami that struck Japan in 2011. Inside is Nao's diary, and Ruth becomes obsessed with finding out how the story ends.

Awards and nominations

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References

  1. ↑ "Penguin Reading Guide". Penguin. Retrieved 2013-11-20.
  2. ↑ "Man Booker Prize 2013". Retrieved 2013-11-20.
  3. ↑ Kirsten Reach (January 14, 2014). "NBCC finalists announced". Melville House Publishing. Retrieved January 14, 2014.
  4. ↑ "Announcing the National Book Critics Awards Finalists for Publishing Year 2013". National Book Critics Circle. January 14, 2014. Retrieved January 14, 2014.
  5. ↑ Flood, Alison (13 February 2014). "Ruth Ozeki beats Thomas Pynchon to top Kitschie award". The Guardian. Retrieved 14 February 2014.
  6. ↑ Carolyn Kellogg (April 11, 2014). "Jacket Copy: The winners of the Los Angeles Times Book Prizes are ...". LA Times. Retrieved April 14, 2014.

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