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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) |
Ruth Ozeki
Hardcover | Pages: 422 pages Rating: 4.01 | 78492 Users | 10323 Reviews
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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 | : | Deluxe 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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Ratings: 4.01 From 78492 Users | 10323 ReviewsCrit Regarding Books A Tale for the Time Being
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 arethis book is about suicide. it says so in the first couple of pages so i'm not giving anything away. i know a lot about suicide. i am not an anti-suicide person. if someone feels it's their time to go; if they feel the pain is too much; if they have suffered long and terribly and see no end in sight, i say, goodbye my friend. in my modest personal experience, these people, the people with so much damage in them they find life a terrible ordeal day after fucking day tend to die early-ish anyway.
Dammit this should have been at least a 4 star book! Till about the second half of part 3, I was all set to give this rave reviews 'cause Nao's story was so compelling and well written plus there wasn't enough of Ruth's woeful tone to grate on the nerves. Then Ruth's dream sequence comes up and ugh it damn near ruins the bloody book. It's ridiculous! Some psychic, whimsical,zen bullshit. It's not the spiritual realm that's the problem, it's the fact that it comes from almost nowhere and it
Am I crazy?" she asked. "I feel like I am sometimes.""Maybe," he said, rubbing her forehead. "But don't worry about it. You need to be a little bit crazy. Crazy is the price you pay for having an imagination. It's your superpower. Tapping into the dream. It's a good thing not a bad thing. Ruth Ozekis A Tale for the Time Being begins with an awkward plea from 16-year-old Nao simply to be heard. To make a single connection with another human being. Living in Tokyo, Nao writes both about her
Here are a few trigger warning topics to be aware of in this book (stop reading if you don't want to know):-Bullying/Hazing-Suicide-Depression-Attempted Rape-Child ProstitutionYes, all of that crammed into 432 pages. Here's the thing- I don't mind reading about characters going through abuse. It exists and we shouldn't ignore it. But when there's no plot advancing and it's just chapter after chapter about someone getting abused? It gets taxing. It's as if the author went, Hmm how am I going to
What a fascinating novel this was! I enjoyed the alternate timelines and the two female narrators, Nao and Ruth. Nao is in Japan and is writing in her journal, and Ruth later finds the journal and reads it, without knowing what happened to Nao. It's an intriguing and emotional story, and it made for a good book club discussion. Recommended!Favorite Quotes"Life is fleeting. Don't waste a single moment of your precious life. Wake up now! And now! And now!""Print is predictable and impersonal,
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