A tale for the time being
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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.
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A tale for the time being, Ruth Ozeki
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- 2013
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- Title
- A tale for the time being
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Ruth Ozeki
- Publisher
- Canongate
- Released
- 2013
- Format
- Hardcover
- ISBN10
- 0857867970
- ISBN13
- 9780857867971
- Category
- Psychology, Young Adult, Contemporary Literary Fiction
- Description
- 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.