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Item Details
Title:
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A TALE FOR THE TIME BEING
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By: |
Ruth L. Ozeki |
Format: |
Paperback |
List price:
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£12.99 |
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ISBN 10: |
0857867997 |
ISBN 13: |
9780857867995 |
Publisher: |
CANONGATE BOOKS LTD |
Pub. date: |
28 February, 2013 |
Description: |
The author 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. |
Synopsis: |
'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 Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2013
Long-listed for PEN Open Book Award 2014 |
Returns: |
Returnable |
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