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A Tale for the Time Being

de Ruth L. Ozeki

Première publication en 2013 · 438 pages

À propos de ce livre

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)

  • Women authors
  • Teenage girls
  • Buddhist nuns
  • Fiction
  • FICTION / Literary
  • New York Times reviewed
  • Literary
  • Roman

Critiques de lecteurs

  • Josh100/100

    A Tale For the Time Being is a story that could very easily have gone off the rails in the hands of a less skilled writer, but Ozeki pulled it off well IMO. Here are just a few of the ingredients: Metafiction, analogies between Buddhism and quantum mechanics, multiple suicidal characters, spirit animals, monographs on avantgarde ecology projects, and online bidding wars for stolen Japanese…

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