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A Tale for the Time Being
Published 30 October 2017
ISBN 9781925498950
Format Paperback
Extent 432pp
AU Price $24.99
NZ Price $28.00

A Tale for the Time Being

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Paperback
30 Oct 2017
EBook
7 Mar 2013
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A beautifully interwoven novel about magic and loss and the incomprehensible threads that connect our lives.

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. 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. And it is much much more.
Published 30 October 2017
ISBN 9781925498950
Format Paperback
Extent 432pp
AU Price $24.99
NZ Price $28.00

About the author

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.
portrait photo of Ruth Ozeki

Also by Ruth Ozeki

The Typing Lady
The Book of Form and Emptiness
My Year of Meats
All Over Creation
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Praise for A Tale for the Time Being

A masterpiece, pure and simple

Kirkus Reviews

Ingenious and touching…I read it with great pleasure.

Philip Pullman

One of those exquisitely rare books in which you’re still wondering what else it holds until the very last page.

Sun Herald

A huge, compassionate and cleverly wrought novel.

Times Literary Supplement