Eight Million Ways to Happiness
Find Your Own Way to Inner Peace With the Wisdom of Japan
- 368 pages
- 13 hours of reading
Ruth Ozeki Book order (chronological)
March 12, 1956
Ruth Ozeki is a novelist whose work delves into the intricate connections between people and the world around them. Her writing often explores themes of identity, interconnectedness, and the impact of human actions on the environment. Through her meticulously crafted narratives, Ozeki invites readers to reflect on their own place within an ever-changing landscape. Her distinctive voice fluidly blends introspection with sharp social commentary.
The Face: A Time Code
- 140 pages
- 5 hours of reading
A revelatory short memoir from the author and Zen Buddhist priest Ruth Ozeki about how her face has shaped and been shaped by her life
The Book of Unknown Americans
- 304 pages
- 11 hours of reading
A dazzling, heartbreaking page-turner destined for breakout status: a novel that gives voice to the displaced.
Nao lives in Tokyo. She is sixteen, and has decided to write a diary before she kills herself. She has plenty of material-school bullies, depressed parents-but she particularly wants to chronicle the life of her great-grandmother, Jiko, a Buddhist nun. And eventually, Nao thinks, her diary will find its reader. Ruth lives with her husband on the Pacific coast of Canada. A few months after the 2010 tsunami she finds a Hello Kitty lunchbox washed up on the shore. It contains a diary.
Some of the world's favourite authors each contribute a chapter in the life of the mysterious George 'Gee' Keane, photographer, soldier, adventurer and enigma. Under different pens, a startling picture emerges of a man who magically connects the lives and times of young people around the world . . .
All Over Creation
- 432 pages
- 16 hours of reading
With a lifetime of careful nurturing of potatoes and seeds behind them, Lloyd Fuller and his Japanese wife, Momoko, have begun to feel the ravages of time. Their only daughter, Yumi, left home twenty-five years ago, and now they must attempt to consider the future of their precious yet fragile livelihood. Meanwhile a troupe of young revolutionaries are scouring the land in their faithful Winnebego, their eccentric, volatile lives focused on restoring farming practice to its basic beginnings and curbing genetic modification once and for all. As the 'Seeds of Resistance' come crashing into Fullers Farms so too does Yumi return to the fold, and the lives of Lloyd and Momoko are certain never to be the same again.
Jane Takagi-Little produces a Japanese television show on all-American meat cooking. Akiko Ueno learns more than just recipes from Jane's programmes. In one parallel year, the lives of two women at opposite ends of the earth are brought together in a novel of meat, TV and personal crisis.
