A Tale for the Time Being

Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award, this is a timeless and compassionate novel about what it means to be human

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

Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award, this is a timeless and compassionate novel about what it means to be human

Additional text

Packed with philosophical asides about time, and is unexpectedly moving

Product details

• Authors: Ruth Ozeki
• Publisher: Canongate Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 24.03.2022
• EAN: 9781838856250
• ISBN: 978-1-83885-625-0
• No. of pages: 464
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 28 mm
• Series: The canons
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Historical, FICTION / Literary, Crime and mystery fiction, Fiction: general and literary