Viking Press, 2013. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/very good. Signed by author on full title page in my presence. Near fine copy with no flaws but for small soiled spot to fore-edge. Unclipped DJ protected with new mylar cover. 8vo, bookseller #003430.

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A brilliant, unforgettable novel from bestselling author Ruth Ozeki—shortlisted for the Booker Prize “A time being is someone who lives in time, and that means you, and me, and every one of us who is, or was, or ever will be.” In 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, A Tale for the Time Being is a brilliantly inventive, beguiling story of our shared humanity and the search for home.

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Bookseller: Thleodore Books (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 003430
Title: A Tale for the Time Being
Author: Ozeki, Ruth
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Near Fine
Jacket Condition: very good
Quantity Available: 1
Edition: First edition
ISBN 10: 0670026638
ISBN 13: 9780670026630
Publisher: Viking Press
Place of Publication: New York, Ny
Date Published: 2013
Bookseller catalogs: Fiction;

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