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Published by Penguin Books, 2013
ISBN 10: 0143124870ISBN 13: 9780143124870
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Published by Viking, 2013
ISBN 10: 0670026638ISBN 13: 9780670026630
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Published by Canongate Books, 2013
ISBN 10: 0857867970ISBN 13: 9780857867971
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Published by Penguin Canada, 2013
ISBN 10: 0143187422ISBN 13: 9780143187424
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Published by Canongate Canons, 2019
ISBN 10: 1786893908ISBN 13: 9781786893901
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Published by Viking Press, 2013
ISBN 10: 1782113223ISBN 13: 9781782113225
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Published by Simon & Schuster Ltd, United Kingdom, London, 2017
ISBN 10: 1471146650ISBN 13: 9781471146657
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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. As they look to the stars, what are they missing back home? 'Phenomenal. A transcendent journey into the mysteries of space and self. Howrey's expansive vision left me awestruck' RUTH OZEKI, author of A Tale for the Time Being The best of Helen Kane exists in space. If she doesn't go back up, she'll be consigned to a lesser version of herself on a planet that has also seen better days. Helen is an experienced astronaut with a NASA position and a struggling grown-up daughter who needs her but when, at fifty-three, she is offered a place on the training programme for the first mission to Mars, the most realistic simulation ever, she cannot refuse a last chance to walk among the stars. Her fellow astronauts are Sergei, a gruff Russian whose teenage sons are less mysterious to him than they'd like to think; and Yoshi, who wants to prove himself worthy of the wife he has drifted apart from. The three will be enclosed for months in a tiny craft, while outside their loved ones negotiate everyday life on Earth. How far will the wanderers travel in the pursuit of endeavour, and what will it be like to come home? Station Eleven meets We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves in this brilliantly inventive and sharply observed novel of science, ambition, endeavour and family. 'An astounding, insightful, exhilarating ride' HELEN SEDGWICK, author of The Comet Seekers 'A stealthily brilliant novel. A distinct, shimmering vision of who we are . at once simple, gorgeous and profoundly moving' PETER NICHOLS, author of The Rocks. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
Published by Simon & Schuster Ltd, United Kingdom, London, 2018
ISBN 10: 1471146685ISBN 13: 9781471146688
Seller: WorldofBooks, Goring-By-Sea, WS, United Kingdom
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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. As they look to the stars, what are they missing back home? 'Phenomenal. A transcendent journey into the mysteries of space and self. Howrey's expansive vision left me awestruck'RUTH OZEKI, author ofA Tale for the Time Being Helen Kane may not be the best mother in the world, but she is one of the world's best astronauts and when, at fifty-three, she's offered a chance to train for the first crewed mission to Mars, she doesn't hesitate. She and her fellow astronauts Sergei and Yoshihiro will be confined in a desert facility, striving to prove themselves, while outside their loved ones Helens actress daughter, Sergeis teenage son, and Yoshi's lonely businesswoman wife Madoka pursue complex explorations of their own. All six will find themselves confronting the bonds of love and loyalty, sacrifice and desire.Station ElevenmeetsWe Are All Completely Beside Ourselvesin this brilliantly witty and inventivenovel of ambition, endeavour and family. 'An astounding, insightful, exhilarating ride'HELEN SEDGWICK, author ofThe Comet Seekers 'A stealthily brilliant novel. A distinct, shimmering vision of who we are. at once simple, gorgeous and profoundly moving'PETER NICHOLS, author ofThe Rocks. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
Published by Canongate Books Ltd, 2013
ISBN 10: 0857867962ISBN 13: 9780857867964
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Published by W F Howes Ltd, 2014
ISBN 10: 1471254151ISBN 13: 9781471254154
Seller: Goldstone Books, Llandybie, United Kingdom
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ISBN 10: 1838856250ISBN 13: 9781838856250
Seller: WorldofBooks, Goring-By-Sea, WS, United Kingdom
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Published by Canongate Books, Edinburgh, 2022
ISBN 10: 1838855904ISBN 13: 9781838855901
Seller: Grand Eagle Retail, Wilmington, DE, U.S.A.
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. What did your face look like before your parents were born? Who are you? What is your true self? These are the questions in Ruth Ozeki's mind as she challenges herself to spend three hours gazing into her own reflection, recording every thought and detail.What follows are a lifetime's worth of meditations on race, ageing, family, death, the body, self-doubt and, finally, acceptance. In this profound encounter with memory and the mirror, Ozeki weaves together personal history, professional experience, Zen philosophy, Japanese culture and more to paint a rich, intimate and utterly unique portrait of a life as told through a face. A revelatory treatise from the Booker-shortlisted author of A Tale for the Time Being about how her face has shaped and been shaped by her life. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
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Published by Large Print Press, 2014
ISBN 10: 1594136882ISBN 13: 9781594136887
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Published by Penguin Books
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Published by Viking, NY, 2013
Seller: Nilbog Books, Portland, ME, U.S.A.
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Soft cover. Condition: Very Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: None Issued. Special Edition. This is a Very Fine copy of the "Special Edition" - So stated on the rear cover along with the words "Not For Resale". NOT an uncorrected proof and the cover design seems identical to the hardcover edition.
Published by Viking Books, 2003
ISBN 10: 0670030910ISBN 13: 9780670030910
Seller: MostlySignedBooks, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Near fine in fine dust jacket. SIGNED and inscribed ?For Yvonne- all the best!? by the author on the title page. 1st edition, 1st printing, complete number line. Dust jacket is fine in protective mylar sleeve. Book has mild softening to the base of the spine. The American Book Award- and WILLA Literary Award-winning novel by the Kiriyama Prize-, Yasnaya Polyana Literary Award-, International IMPAC Dublin Award-, Dos Passos Prize-, National Book Critics Circle Award-, Medici Book Club Prize-, Sunburst Award-, Los Angeles Times Book Prize-, Canada-Japan Literary Award-, and Kitschies Red Tentacle Prize-winning author of ?My Year of Meats? and ?A Tale for the Time Being?. Where possible, all books come with dust jacket in a clear protective plastic sleeve, sealed in a ziplock bag, wrapped in bubble wrap, shipped in a box. Signed by Author(s).
Published by HarperCollins Publishers Inc, New York, 2023
ISBN 10: 0063140896ISBN 13: 9780063140899
Seller: Grand Eagle Retail, Wilmington, DE, U.S.A.
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. An IndieNext Pick! A Best Book of 2022 in Harper's Bazaar, Daily Mail, Glamour, and Thrillist!Most Anticipated of 2022 in The Millions, Ms. Magazine, LitHubA young, mixed-race vampire must find a way to balance her deep-seated desire to live amongst humans with her incessant hunger in this stunning debut novel from a writer-to-watch.Lydia is hungry. She's always wanted to try Japanese food. Sashimi, ramen, onigiri with sour plum stuffed inside - the food her Japanese father liked to eat. And then there is bubble tea and iced-coffee, ice cream and cake, and foraged herbs and plants, and the vegetables grown by the other young artists at the London studio space she is secretly squatting in. But, Lydia can't eat any of these things. Her body doesn't work like those of other people. The only thing she can digest is blood, and it turns out that sourcing fresh pigs' blood in London - where she is living away from her vampire mother for the first time - is much more difficult than she'd anticipated.Then there are the humans - the other artists at the studio space, the people at the gallery she interns at, the strange men that follow her after dark, and Ben, a boyish, goofy-grinned artist she is developing feelings for. Lydia knows that they are her natural prey, but she can't bring herself to feed on them. In her windowless studio, where she paints and studies the work of other artists, binge-watches Buffy the Vampire Slayer and videos of people eating food on YouTube and Instagram, Lydia considers her place in the world. She has many of the things humans wish for - perpetual youth, near-invulnerability, immortality - but she is miserable; she is lonely; and she is hungry - always hungry.As Lydia develops as a woman and an artist, she will learn that she must reconcile the conflicts within her - between her demon and human sides, her mixed ethnic heritage, and her relationship with food, and, in turn, humans - if she is to find a way to exist in the world. Before any of this, however, she must eat."Absolutely brilliant - tragic, funny, eccentric and so perfectly suited to this particularly weird time. Claire Kohda takes the vampire trope and makes it her own in a way that feels fresh and original. Serious issues of race, disability, misogyny, body image, sexual abuse are handled with subtlety, insight, and a lightness of touch. The spell this novel casts is so complete I feel utterly, and happily, bitten." -- Ruth Ozeki, Booker-shortlisted author of A Tale for the Time Being Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
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Published by Edina Publishers, 2024
Seller: Grand Eagle Retail, Wilmington, DE, U.S.A.
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Tokyo, 2017Weeks from a birthday that will see her older than her mother ever was, Antoinette seeks two answers: One-how to explain her Master's thesis on light as memory.And two-was her mother's death an accident or a suicide?Then a long-lost pen-pal returns to her life, propelling her closer to the truth.Kyou, the top star of a gender-bending nabe bar, would sooner die than move into management. She needs an out, she needs cash and, most importantly, she needs an identity. As an unregistered mukoseki, she is a legal anomaly.Officially, Kyou doesn't exist.Their searches for identity intertwine with the lives of a video-game obsessed businessman and a writer who refuses to speak. Across Japan and down to New Zealand, from neon-lit alleys to tiny islands, their journey towards the truth is as tangled as their pasts.Fact and fable blur together in a rich tapestry that ultimately explores what it is to be human.For fans of Ruth Ozeki's A Tale for the Time Being and Ali Smith's How to be Both, Jade du Preez's Outsider is a rich, engrossing study in art, culture, identity and the complexity of being human. For fans of Ruth Ozeki's "A Tale for the Time Being", "Outsider" is a rich study in art, culture, identity and the complexity of being human. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
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Published by Penguin Putnam Inc, 1999
ISBN 10: 0140280464ISBN 13: 9780140280463
Seller: Grand Eagle Retail, Wilmington, DE, U.S.A.
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. A cross-cultural tale of two women brought together by the intersections of television and industrial agriculture, fertility and motherhood, life and lovethe breakout hit by the celebrated author of A Tale for the Time Being and The Book of Form and Emptiness Ruth Ozekis mesmerizing debut novel has captivated readers and reviewers worldwide. When documentarian Jane Takagi-Little finally lands a job producing a Japanese television show that just happens to be sponsored by an American meat-exporting business, she uncovers some unsavory truths about love, fertility, and a dangerous hormone called DES. Soon she will also cross paths with Akiko Ueno, a beleaguered Japanese housewife struggling to escape her overbearing husband. Hailed by USA Today as rare and provocative and awarded the Kirayama Prize for Literature of the Pacific Rim, My Year of Meats is a modern-day take on Upton Sinclairs The Jungle for fans of Michael Pollan, Margaret Atwood, and Barbara Kingsolver. Jane, a struggling filmmaker, is producing a piece sponsored by the American meat exporting business, while Akiko's child-craving husband is pressuring her to put some meat on her bones--literally. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
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Published by Penguin Putnam Inc, New York, NY, 2004
ISBN 10: 0142003891ISBN 13: 9780142003893
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. A warm and witty saga about agribusiness, environmental activism, and communityfrom the celebrated author of The Book of Form and Emptiness and A Tale for the Time Being Yumi Fuller hasnt set foot in her hometown of Liberty Falls, Idahoheart of the potato-farming industrysince she ran away at age fifteen. Twenty-five years later, the prodigal daughter returns to confront her dying parents, her best friend, and her conflicted past, and finds herself caught up in an altogether new drama. The post-millennial farming community has been invaded by Agribusiness forces at war with a posse of activists, the Seeds of Resistance, who travel the country in a camping car, The Spudnick, biofueled by pilfered McDonalds french-fry oil. Following her widely hailed, award-winning debut novel, My Year of Meats, Ruth Ozeki returns here to deliver a quirky cast of characters and a wickedly humorous appreciation of the foibles of corporate life, globalization, political resistance, youth culture, and aging baby boomers. All Over Creation tells a celebratory tale of the beauty of seeds, roots, and growthand the capacity for renewal that resides within us all. From the author of "My Year of Meats" comes a dramatic story of a prodigal daughter's homecoming to a heartland of genetically modified crops. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
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Published by Thorndike Press, 2013
ISBN 10: 1410460460ISBN 13: 9781410460462
Seller: Better World Books, Mishawaka, IN, U.S.A.
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Published by Viking, 2013
ISBN 10: 0670067040ISBN 13: 9780670067046
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 0.8.
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Published by Text Publishing, Melbourne, 2017
ISBN 10: 1925498956ISBN 13: 9781925498950
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Nao lives in Tokyo. She is sixteen, and has decided to write a diary before she kills herself. She has plenty of materialschool bullies, depressed parentsbut she particularly wants to chronicle the life of her great-grandmother, Jiko, a Buddhist nun. 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 diaryThis is the simple story of a girl, her great-grandmother and the novelist who becomes enthralled with their tale. But this simple story draws from the deep currents of our times, from quantum physics, Japanese ghost tales, suicide trends, first-person accounts of kamikaze fighters during World War II, thirteenth-century Buddhist texts and recent pop culture. It is a meditation on impermanence, and the intimate relationship between past and present, fact and fiction, and time and text. Ruth Ozeki Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
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Published by HarperCollins Publishers Inc, New York, 2022
ISBN 10: 0063140888ISBN 13: 9780063140882
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Hardcover. Condition: new. Hardcover. An IndieNext Pick! A Best Book of 2022 in Harper's Bazaar, Daily Mail, Glamour, and Thrillist!Most Anticipated of 2022 in The Millions, Ms. Magazine, LitHubA young, mixed-race vampire must find a way to balance her deep-seated desire to live amongst humans with her incessant hunger in this stunning debut novel from a writer-to-watch.Lydia is hungry. She's always wanted to try Japanese food. Sashimi, ramen, onigiri with sour plum stuffed inside - the food her Japanese father liked to eat. And then there is bubble tea and iced-coffee, ice cream and cake, and foraged herbs and plants, and the vegetables grown by the other young artists at the London studio space she is secretly squatting in. But, Lydia can't eat any of these things. Her body doesn't work like those of other people. The only thing she can digest is blood, and it turns out that sourcing fresh pigs' blood in London - where she is living away from her vampire mother for the first time - is much more difficult than she'd anticipated.Then there are the humans - the other artists at the studio space, the people at the gallery she interns at, the strange men that follow her after dark, and Ben, a boyish, goofy-grinned artist she is developing feelings for. Lydia knows that they are her natural prey, but she can't bring herself to feed on them. In her windowless studio, where she paints and studies the work of other artists, binge-watches Buffy the Vampire Slayer and videos of people eating food on YouTube and Instagram, Lydia considers her place in the world. She has many of the things humans wish for - perpetual youth, near-invulnerability, immortality - but she is miserable; she is lonely; and she is hungry - always hungry.As Lydia develops as a woman and an artist, she will learn that she must reconcile the conflicts within her - between her demon and human sides, her mixed ethnic heritage, and her relationship with food, and, in turn, humans - if she is to find a way to exist in the world. Before any of this, however, she must eat."Absolutely brilliant - tragic, funny, eccentric and so perfectly suited to this particularly weird time. Claire Kohda takes the vampire trope and makes it her own in a way that feels fresh and original. Serious issues of race, disability, misogyny, body image, sexual abuse are handled with subtlety, insight, and a lightness of touch. The spell this novel casts is so complete I feel utterly, and happily, bitten." -- Ruth Ozeki, Booker-shortlisted author of A Tale for the Time Being Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
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Published by Canongate, Edinburgh & London, 2013
Seller: Brothers' Fine and Collectible Books, IOBA, Humble, TX, U.S.A.
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Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Canongate, Edinburgh & London, 2013. A near fine, collectible uncorrected proof copy of the British edition of this National Book Critics Circle Award nominated and Booker Prize nominated novel. Uncorrected Proof. First British Edition, First printing as indicated by the number 1 printed on copyright page. A near fine, uncorrected proof copy in pictorial wraps. Book is square, spine is tight. Board corners bumped/slight flare, bump on spine bottom. Typical wear from shelving. Shipped in well-padded box.
Forum, Stockholm 2015. 462 sidor. Förlagsband med skyddsomslag. ISBN 9789137142777. Originalets titel: A tale for the time being. Översatt av Molle Kanmert Sjölander.
Published by Viking, New York, 2013
Seller: Bauer Rare Books, San Diego, CA, U.S.A.
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First edition. 8vo. 422 pp. Hardcover binding in unclipped dustwrapper, very good condition. (99282). 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.
Published by Random House UK Ltd Apr 2010, 2010
ISBN 10: 0099521342ISBN 13: 9780099521341
Seller: BuchWeltWeit Ludwig Meier e.K., Bergisch Gladbach, Germany
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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -He is a brilliant maths professor with a peculiar problem - ever since a traumatic head injury seventeen years ago, he has lived with only eighty minutes of short-term memory. She is a sensitive but astute young housekeeper who is entrusted to take care of him. Each morning, as the Professor and the Housekeeper are reintroduced to one another, a strange, beautiful relationship blossoms between them. The Professor may not remember what he had for breakfast, but his mind is still alive with elegant equations from the past. He devises clever maths riddles - based on her shoe size or her birthday - and the numbers reveal a sheltering and poetic world to both the Housekeeper and her ten-year-old son. With each new equation, the three lost souls forge an affection more mysterious than imaginary numbers, and a bond that runs deeper than memory. 180 pp. Englisch.
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Published by Penguin LLC US Sep 2021, 2021
ISBN 10: 0593489403ISBN 13: 9780593489406
Seller: BuchWeltWeit Ludwig Meier e.K., Bergisch Gladbach, Germany
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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -Winner ofthe Women s Prize for Fiction No one writes like Ruth Ozeki a triumph. Matt Haig, New York Times bestselling author of The Midnight Library Inventive, vivid, and propelled by a sense of wonder. TIME If you ve lost your way with fiction over the last year or two, let The Book of Form and Emptiness light your way home. David Mitchell, Booker Prize-finalist author of Cloud Atlas A boy who hears the voices of objects all around him; a mother drowning in her possessions; and a Book that might hold the secret to saving them both the brilliantly inventive new novel from the Booker Prize-finalist Ruth OzekiOne year after the death of his beloved musician father, thirteen-year-old Benny Oh begins to hear voices. The voices belong to the things in his house a sneaker, a broken Christmas ornament, a piece of wilted lettuce. Although Benny doesn't understand what these things are saying, he can sense their emotional tone; some are pleasant, a gentle hum or coo, but others are snide, angry and full of pain. When his mother, Annabelle, develops a hoarding problem, the voices grow more clamorous. At first, Benny tries to ignore them, but soon the voices follow him outside the house, onto the street and at school, driving him at last to seek refuge in the silence of a large public library, where objects are well-behaved and know to speak in whispers. There, Benny discovers a strange new world. He falls in love with a mesmerizing street artist with a smug pet ferret, who uses the library as her performance space. He meets a homeless philosopher-poet, who encourages him to ask important questions and find his own voice amongst the many. And he meets his very own Book a talking thing who narrates Benny s life and teaches him to listen to the things that truly matter. With its blend of sympathetic characters, riveting plot, and vibrant engagement with everything from jazz, to climate change, to our attachment to material possessions, The Book of Form and Emptiness is classic Ruth Ozeki bold, wise, poignant, playful, humane and heartbreaking. 548 pp. Englisch.
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Published by The Text Publishing Company, Melbourne, Australia, 2013
ISBN 10: 1922079189ISBN 13: 9781922079183
Seller: Books@Ruawai, Kaipara District, New Zealand
Book First Edition
Soft cover. Condition: Good - Some Wear. First Edition.