A Tale for the Time Being Hardback
by Ruth Ozeki
Hardback
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Stunning Limited Edition hardback with hand-crafted Nepalese binding and beautifully designed full-colour endpapersShortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2013'Hi!
My name is Nao, and I am a time being. Do you know what a time being is? Well, if you give me a moment, I will tell you.'Ruth discovers a Hello Kitty lunchbox washed up on the shore of her beach home.
Within it lies a diary that expresses the hopes and dreams of a young girl.
She suspects it might have arrived on a drift of debris from the 2011 tsunami.
With every turn of the page, she is sucked deeper into an enchanting mystery.
In a small cafe in Tokyo, sixteen-year-old Nao Yasutani is navigating the challenges thrown up by modern life.
In the face of cyberbullying, the mysteries of a 104-year-old Buddhist nun and great-grandmother, and the joy and heartbreak of family, Nao is trying to find her own place - and voice - through a diary she hopes will find a reader and friend who finally understands her. Weaving across continents and decades, and exploring the relationship between reader and writer, fact and fiction, A Tale for the Time Being is an extraordinary novel about our shared humanity and the search for home.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:432 pages
- Publisher:Canongate Books Ltd
- Publication Date:11/03/2013
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- ISBN:9780857867964
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Item not Available
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:432 pages
- Publisher:Canongate Books Ltd
- Publication Date:11/03/2013
- Category:
- ISBN:9780857867964