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A Tale for the Time Being

by Ruth Ozeki
₱677.70
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A Tale for the Time Being - Thryft
  • 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)
  • Metų verstinė knyga Nominee (2016)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

A Tale for the Time Being

by Ruth Ozeki
₱677.70
ISBN: 9781786893901
Authors: Ruth Ozeki
Publisher: Canongate Books Ltd
Date of Publication: 2019-03-07
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Literary Fiction, Historical Fiction, Contemporary
Related Topics: Asia
Goodreads rating: 4.06
(rated by 119061 readers)

Description

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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Books in Well Read Condition

This is a well-read book, which means that the previous owner probably really enjoyed it! The cover and pages may include moderate foxing and annotations, but the text is not obscured and still readable. Moderate cosmetic defects and minor water damage may be present on the edges of the book. For paperbacks, there may be multiple crease marks on the spine.

*Books may be missing bundle media (e.g. CD, e-book code), if included.

 

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Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.