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A Tale for the Time Being
Written by Ruth Ozeki
- Shortlisted
- The Man Booker Prize 2013
- Published by Canongate
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Ruth Ozeki’s bewitching metafictional novel about our shared humanity and the search for home
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 that devastated Japan. With every turn of the page, she is sucked deeper into an enchanting mystery.
Ruth Ozeki
Ruth Ozeki was born and raised in Connecticut, USA, and is an award-winning novelist and filmmaker
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