![]() ![]() Junot Diaz calls A Tale for the Time Being "an extraordinary novel about a courageous young woman, riven by loneliness, by time, and (ultimately) by tsunami.Ozeki is one of my favorite novelists and here she is at her absolute best." 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." Do you know what a time being is? Well, if you give me a moment, I will tell you. It begins with these words from a Japanese girl's diary that has washed up on the shore of British Columbia and found its way into the hands of a writer named Ruth: "Hi! My name is Nao, and I am a time being. ![]() Novelist, filmmaker and Zen Buddhist priest Ruth Ozeki is the author of My Year of Meats, All Over Creation, and now her third novel, A Tale for the Time Being.Ī Tale for the Time Being is a profoundly inventive, funny, and emotionally striking novel infused with Zen perspectives on time, reality, and suffering. ![]()
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