num_pages: 432
description: 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 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 solaceand will touch lives in a ways she can scarcely imagine. Across the Pacific we meet Ruth a novelist living on a remote island who discovers a collection of artifacts washed ashore in a Hello Kitty lunchboxpossibly debris from the devastating 2011 tsunami. As the mystery of its contents unfolds Ruth is pulled into the past into Nao's drama and her unknown fate and forward into her own future. Full of Ozeki's signature humour 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.
language: English
title: A Tale for the Time Being
publisher: Viking