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 an award-winning novelist and filmmaker. Her third novel, A Tale for the Time Being won the 2013 Independent Booksellers Book Award and the Kitchies Red Tentacle Award, and was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2013 and the National Book Critics Award for Fiction. She is also the author of My Year of Meats and All Over Creation. Ozeki was born and raised in Connecticut, by an American father and Japanese mother. In June 2010 she was ordained as a Zen Buddhist priest. She divides her time between British Columbia and New York.

ruthozeki.com | @ozekiland

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, Ozeki Ruth
• 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: Canons
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Historical, FICTION / Literary, Crime and mystery fiction, Fiction: general and literary