A Tale for the Time Being |
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Author:
| Ozeki, Ruth |
ISBN: | 978-1-925498-95-0 |
Publication Date: | Oct 2017 |
Publisher: | Text Publishing Company
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Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | AUD $23.99 |
Book Description:
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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...
More DescriptionNao 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.