The Face: A Time Code
- 140pagine
- 5 ore di lettura
A revelatory short memoir from the author and Zen Buddhist priest Ruth Ozeki about how her face has shaped and been shaped by her life
Ruth Ozeki Ordine dei libri (cronologico)
12 marzo 1956
Ruth Ozeki è una romanziera il cui lavoro approfondisce le intricate connessioni tra le persone e il mondo che le circonda. La sua scrittura esplora spesso temi di identità, interconnessione e l'impatto delle azioni umane sull'ambiente. Attraverso le sue narrazioni meticolosamente elaborate, Ozeki invita i lettori a riflettere sul proprio posto in un paesaggio in continuo mutamento. La sua voce distintiva fonde fluidamente l'introspezione con acuta critica sociale.
A Tale For The Time Being
- 425pagine
- 15 ore di lettura
Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2013 'Hi! My name is Nao, and I am a time being. Do you know what a time being is? Well, if you give me a moment, I will tell you.' 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. With every turn of the page, she is sucked deeper into an enchanting mystery. In a small cafe in Tokyo, sixteen-year-old Nao Yasutani is navigating the challenges thrown up by modern life. In the face of cyberbullying, the mysteries of a 104-year-old Buddhist nun and great-grandmother, and the joy and heartbreak of family, Nao is trying to find her own place - and voice - through a diary she hopes will find a reader and friend who finally understands her. Weaving across continents and decades, and exploring the relationship between reader and writer, fact and fiction, A Tale for the Time Being is an extraordinary novel about our shared humanity and the search for home.
A compelling and compassionate novel about environmental activism, community and starting over, from the Booker-shortlisted author
In a single eye-opening year, two women, worlds apart, experience parallel awakenings. In New York, Jane Takagi-Little has landed a job producing Japanese docu-soap My American Wife! But as she researches the consumption of meat in the American home, she begins to realize that her ruthless search for a story is deeply compromising her morals. Meanwhile, in Tokyo, housewife Akiko Ueno diligently prepares the recipes from Jane's programme. Struggling to please her husband, she increasingly doubts her commitment to the life she has fallen into. As Jane and Akiko both battle to assert their individuality on opposite sides of the globe, they are drawn together in a startling story of strength, courage, love.