Description
Title: Tale for the Time Being, A
Author: OZEKI RUTH
Format: PAPERBACK
Publication date: 30/10/2017
Imprint: TEXT PUBLISHERS
Price: $24.00
Publishing status: Active
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
Weight: 290gr
Dimension: 197mm X 130mm
Pages: 432