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Title: A TALE FOR THE TIME BEING
By: Ruth Ozeki
Format: Paperback

List price: £9.99


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ISBN 10: 0857867970
ISBN 13: 9780857867971
Publisher: CANONGATE BOOKS LTD
Pub. date: 1 March, 2013
Edition: Main
Pages: 432
Description: Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2013
Synopsis: Shortlisted 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.
Publication: UK
Imprint: Canongate Books Ltd
Prizes: Winner of Medici Book Club Prize 2014 Winner of Independent Booksellers' Week Book of the Year Award: Adults' Winner of Kitschies: Red Tentacle 2013 Short-listed for Indies Choice Book Awards: Adult Fiction Honour Award 2014 Short-listed for National Book Critics Circle Awards 2014 Short-listed for Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2013 Long-listed for PEN Open Book Award 2014
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