A Tale for the Time Being
Author: Ozeki, Ruth
ISBN: 9781925498950
Publisher: The Text Publishing Company
Year first published: 30 Oct 2017
Pages: 432
Format: Paperback / softback
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.
ISBN: 9781925498950
Publisher: The Text Publishing Company
Year first published: 30 Oct 2017
Pages: 432
Format: Paperback / softback
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.
