A Tale for the Time Being

English language

Published Dec. 29, 2013 by Canongate Books.

ISBN:
978-0-85786-797-1
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A Tale for the Time Being is a metafictional novel by Ruth Ozeki narrated by two characters, a sixteen-year-old Japanese American girl living in Tokyo who keeps a diary, and a Japanese American writer living on an island off the coast of British Columbia who finds the diary of the young woman washed ashore some time after the 2011 tsunami that devastated Japan.

4 editions

Subjects

  • Fiction, psychological
  • Young women, fiction
  • Tokyo (japan), fiction
  • British columbia, fiction
  • Authors, fiction
  • Nuns, fiction
  • Fiction, fantasy, contemporary