Timecode of a Face

A revelatory treatise from the Booker-shortlisted author of A Tale for the Time Being about how her face has shaped and been shaped by her life

About the author

Ruth Ozeki is a novelist, filmmaker and Zen Buddhist priest. She is the author of four novels including The Book of Form and Emptiness, which won the Women's Prize for Fiction, and A Tale for the Time Being, which was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and translated into 28 languages. Ozeki has also written a short memoir, Timecode of a Face. She is affiliated with the Everyday Zen Foundation and lives in Northampton, Massachusetts, where she teaches creative writing at Smith College and is the Grace Jarcho Ross 1933 Professor of Humanities.

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Summary

A revelatory treatise from the Booker-shortlisted author of A Tale for the Time Being about how her face has shaped and been shaped by her life

Additional text

Funny, heartbreaking, moving and profound . . . The warmth, compassion, wisdom and insight with which Ozeki pieces all these stories together will have the reader linked in a similarly profound way to this fantastic novel

Product details

• Authors: Ruth Ozeki, Ozeki Ruth
• Publisher: Canongate Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 24.03.2022
• EAN: 9781838855901
• ISBN: 978-1-83885-590-1
• No. of pages: 144
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 8 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Contemporary literature (from 1945); Humanities, art, music > History > Cultural history; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social and cultural history, Mixed heritage / mixed race groups or people, Gender studies: women and girls