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A tale for the time being / Ruth Ozeki.

Ozeki, Ruth L., (author.).

Summary:

""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"-- Provided by publisher.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780143187424 (paperback)
  • Physical Description: 422 pages ; 21 cm
  • Publisher: Toronto : Penguin, [2014]

Content descriptions

General Note:
Originally published: New York : Viking, 2013.
Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references.
Subject: Teenage girls > Fiction.
Diary > Fiction
Tsunami > Fiction.
2011 Tsunami > Fiction.
Buddhist nuns > Fiction.
Women authors > Fiction.
Tokyo (Japan) > Fiction.
Vancouver Island (B.C.) > Fiction.
Genre: Psychological fiction.

Available copies

  • 28 of 32 copies available at BC Interlibrary Connect.
  • 6 of 8 copies available at Sechelt/Gibsons. (Show)
  • 5 of 6 copies available at Gibsons Public Library. (Show)

Holds

  • 0 current holds with 32 total copies.
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Location Call Number / Copy Notes Barcode Shelving Location Holdable? Status Due Date
Gibsons Public Library BOOK CLUB OZEK (Text) 30886000644456 Book Club Sets Not holdable Available -
Gibsons Public Library BOOK CLUB OZEK (Text) 30886000644472 Book Club Sets Not holdable Available -
Gibsons Public Library BOOK CLUB OZEK (Text) 30886000644480 Book Club Sets Not holdable Available -
Gibsons Public Library BOOK CLUB OZEK (Text) 30886000644597 Book Club Sets Not holdable Available -
Gibsons Public Library BOOK CLUB OZEK (Text) 30886000644605 Book Club Sets Not holdable Checked out 2024-10-10
Gibsons Public Library FIC OZEK (Text) 30886000644464 Adult Fiction Volume hold Available -
Big Lake Branch OZE (Text) 33923005232602 General Fiction Volume hold Available -
Castlegar Public Library FIC OZE (Text) 35146001796655 Fiction Volume hold Checked out 2024-11-18
Creston Public Library FIC OZE (Text) 35140000999105 Fiction Volume hold Available -
Dawson Creek Municipal Public Library F OZE (Text) DCL162427 Adult Fiction Volume hold Available -

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