Tale for the Time Being

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Ruth Ozeki: Tale for the Time Being (2019, Canongate Books)

English language

Published May 2, 2019 by Canongate Books.

ISBN:
978-1-78689-390-1
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4 stars (3 reviews)

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, she 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. Across the Pacific a novelist living on a remote island discovers artifacts washed ashore in a Hello Kitty lunchbox and is pulled into Nao's drama and her unknown fate. (Bestseller)

3 editions

Good until the deus ex machina

4 stars

Content warning spoilers, cw: suicide, bullying, sexual assault

Subjects

  • Fiction, psychological
  • Young women, fiction
  • Tokyo (japan), fiction
  • British columbia, fiction
  • Authors, fiction
  • Nuns, fiction
  • Fiction, fantasy, contemporary