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A Tale for the Time Being

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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 solace—and will touch lives in a ways she can scarcely imagine.

In the wake of the 2011 tsunami, Ruth discovers a Hello Kitty lunchbox washed up on the shore of her beach home in British Columbia. Within it lies a diary that express hopes, heartbreak and dreams of a young girl desperate for someone to understand her. Each turn of the page pulls Ruth deeper into the mystery of Nao's life, and forever changes her in a way neither could foresee.

Weaving across continents and decades, A Tale for the Time Being is an extraordinary novel about our shared humanity and the search for home.

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Call Number

F OZE a

Publisher

Great Britain : Canongate Books Ltd., 2013

Collation

13 x 20 cm.; 453 p.

Language

English

ISBN/ISSN

9781838856250

Classification

F OZE a

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Edition

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Subject(s)

9781838856250
FD02199
A tale for the time being
Humanity

Specific Detail Info

Pluit putri library

Statement of Responsibility

Ruth Ozeki

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