000			02017cam a2200325Ia 4500
001			866585627
003			OCoLC
005			20170901113930.0
008			131223s2013 nyu g b 000 1 eng d
020			_a9780143124870 (pbk.)
020			_a0143124870 (pbk.)
035			_a(OCoLC)866585627
040			_aGP5 _cGP5 _dGP5 _dCGP _dYDXCP _dSJE _dAU@ _dUNBCA
043			_aa-ja--- _an-cn-bc
050		4	_aPS3565.Z45 _bT35 2013b
100	1		_aOzeki, Ruth L _910444
245	1	2	_aA tale for the time being : _ba novel / _cRuth Ozeki
260			_aNew York, New York : _bPenguin Books, _c2013
300			_a422 pages ; _c22 cm
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 419-420)
520			_aIn 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 first 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 ways she can scarcely imagine. Across the Pacific, we meet Ruth, a novelist living on a remote island who discovers a collection of artifacts washed ashore in a Hello Kitty lunchbox--possibly debris from the devastating 2011 tsunami. As the mystery of its contents unfolds, Ruth is pulled into the past, into Nao's drama and her unknown fate, and forward into her own future. Full of Ozeki's signature humor and deeply engaged with the relationship between writer and reader, past and present, fact and fiction, quantum physics, history, and myth, this is a brilliantly inventive, beguiling story of our shared humanity and the search for home
650		0	_aTeenage girls _vFiction _91045
650		0	_aBuddhist nuns _vFiction _910445
650		0	_aWomen authors _vFiction _910446
651		0	_aTokyo (Japan) _vFiction _910447
651		0	_aVancouver Island (B.C.) _vFiction _910448
655		0	_aPsychological fiction _910449
655		7	_aPsychological fiction. _2lcgft _910449
942			_2ddc _cBK
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