Tale for the Time Being A

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Shortlisted for the 2013 Booker Prize.

A beautifully interwoven novel about magic and loss and the incomprehensible threads that connect our lives.

Nao lives in Tokyo. She is sixteen, and has decided to write a diary before she kills herself. She has plenty of material-school bullies, depressed parents-but she particularly wants to chronicle the life of her great-grandmother, Jiko, a Buddhist nun. Eventually, Nao thinks, her diary will find its reader.

Ruth lives with her husband on the Pacific coast of Canada. A few months after the 2010 tsunami, she finds a Hello Kitty lunchbox washed up on the shore. It contains a diary.

This is the simple story of a girl, her great grandmother and the novelist who becomes enthralled with their tale. And it is much much more.

'A Tale for the Time Being is one of the most deeply moving and thought-provoking novels I have read in a long time. In precise and luminous prose, Ozeki captures both the sweep and detail of our shared humanity, movingly seamlessly between Nao's story and our own. The result is gripping, fearless, inspiring and true.' Madeline Miller

'A Tale for the Time Being is an extraordinary novel about a courageous young woman, riven by loneliness, by time, and (ultimately) by tsunami. Nao is an inspired narrator and her quest to tell her great grandmother's story, to connect with her past and with the larger world is both aching and true. Ozeki is one of my favorite novelists and here she is at her absolute best-bewitching, intelligent, hilarious, and heartbreaking, often on the same page.' Junot Diaz

Winner, LA Times Book Prize for Fiction, United States, 2013
Winner, Independent Bookseller Week, Book of the Year, United Kingdom, 2013
Winner, Medici Book Club Prize, United States, 2014
Winner, Yasnaya Polyana Literary Award for the Best Foreign Novel, Russian Federation, 2015
Shortlisted, National Book Critics Circle Awards, United States, 2013
Shortlisted, Man Booker Prize, 2013
Shortlisted, American Booksellers Assocation (ABA) Indies Choice Award for Fiction, United States, 2014
Longlisted, PEN Open Book Award, United States, 2014
Longlisted, International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, Ireland, 2015

Book details and technical specifications

Format: Paperback / softback
ISBN13: 9781925498950
Published: October 2017

Number of pages: 432
Width: 130 mm
Height: 197 mm
Depth: 33 mm

Publisher: Text Publishing