| Title | A Tale for the Time Being |
| Author | Ruth Ozeki |
| Type | Novel, Psychological Fiction |
| Year of Publication | March 7, 2013 |
| Language | English |
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| Number of Pages | 400 |
| Rating | Click to rate this post! [Total: 1 Average: 5] |
A Tale for the Time Being is a metafiction novel by Ruth Ozeki narrated by two characters, a sixteen-year-old Japanese-American girl from Tokyo who keeps a journal, and a Japanese-American writer who lives on an island off British Columbia. The newspaper finds washed ashore sometime after the 2011 tsunami that devastated Japan.
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A Tale for the Time Being Summary
In Tokyo, sixteen-year-old Nao has decided that there is only one escape from his painful loneliness and bullying from his classmates, but before finishing it all, Nao plans to document the life of his great-grandmother, a Buddhist nun who has. lived more. more than a century. A journal is Nao’s only comfort, and it will affect lives in ways she can hardly imagine.
On the other side of the Pacific, we meet Ruth, a novelist who lives on a remote island and discovers a collection of artifacts washed ashore in a Hello Kitty lunchbox, possibly remnants of the devastating 2011 tsunami. As the mystery unfolds from its content, Ruth is drawn back into the past, into Nao’s drama and unknown destiny, and into her own future.
Filled with Ozeki’s signature humor and deeply committed to the relationship between writer and reader, past and present, reality and fiction, quantum physics, history, and myth, A Tale, for the Time Being, is a brilliantly inventive and seductive tale of our la humanity and the search for a home.
A Tale for the Time Being Review
A delightful but sometimes heartbreaking novel. . . Many of the elements of Nao’s story (bullying, unemployed suicidal ‘wage earners’, kamikaze pilots) are among the most familiar images of Japan to a Western reader, but in Nao’s narrative, refracted through the musings of Ruth, they become fresh and immediate, at times excruciatingly painful. Ozeki tackles big issues. . . all drawn by the stories of two “time beings”, Ruth and Nao, whose own destinies are inextricably linked.
About The Author of The Book Ruth Ozeki
Ruth Ozeki (born in New Haven, Connecticut) is a Japanese-American novelist. She is the daughter of anthropologist Floyd Lounsbury.
Ozeki published her debut novel, My Year of Meats, in 1998. She followed up with All Over Creation in 2003. Her new novel, A Tale for the Time Being, was published on March 12, 2013.
She is married to Canadian land artist Oliver Kellhammer, and the couple divides their time between New York City and Vancouver.
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A Tale for the Time Being Quotes
Sometimes when she told stories about the past her eyes would get teary from all the memories she had, but they weren’t tears. She wasn’t crying. They were just the memories, leaking out.
Life is fleeting. Don’t waste a single moment of your precious life. Wake up now! And now! And now!
I am a time being. Do you know what a time being is? Well, if you give me a moment, I will tell you. A time being is someone who lives in time, and that means you, and me, and every one of us who is, or was, or ever will be.
But memories are time beings, too, like cherry blossoms or ginkgo leaves; for a while they are beautiful, and then they fade and die.
She smiled. “Life is full of stories. Or maybe life is only stories. Good night, my dear Nao.
