Search

A Tale for the Time Being

Buy used book

Not in stock. Monitor this book.

Buy new book

Fakta

Publisher Penguin UK
Language English
Book type Paperback
Utgiven 2013-12-01
Pages 422
ISBN 9780143124870
Kategori(er)
Add to cart

Description

A brilliant, unforgettable novel from bestselling author Ruth Ozeki--shortlisted for the Booker Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award ""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 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 lunchbox--possibly 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 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.
Read more
,

So far, we have reused

 2 

 5 

 0 

 6 

 1 

 4 

 9 

books.

Trustpilot

Sweden's friendliest and environmental friendliest bookshop with the lowest priced textbooks.

This is our ambition, and we do what it takes to get there. We are here to help students to save and earn money on their textbooks while we at the same time save the environment. We were started in 2005 by two students and have since strived to constantly make it easier to buy and sell used textbooks for as many as possible.

Subscribe to our newsletter

Subscribe to receive our best student tips, offers and promotions.

Read more about how we handle personal data in our privacy policy.

Looking for stationaries?

Go to Stationaries 👉
Searching...
Stäng