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Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2013], �2013
Language
English
Description
""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." 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, Nao first 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--and will touch lives in ways she...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
-- The Book of Form and Emptiness Finalist for the Booker Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award Full of Ozeki’s signature humor and deeply engaged with the relationship between writer and reader, past and present, fact and fiction, quantum physics, history, and myth, A Tale for the Time Being is a brilliantly inventive, beguiling story of our shared humanity and the search for home.
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