![]() ![]() ![]() It is a book which poses some deep philosophical and metaphysical questions about time, space and the interconnectedness of just about everything yet it is immensely readable and can be enjoyed by those who know nothing about Zen Buddhism. Those who dismiss Booker Prize-shortlisted books as turgid or too literary need to read ‘A Tale for the Time Being’. The diary is discovered by a novelist called Ruth who tries to find out what happened to Nao and her family, including her great-grandmother, Jiko, a Buddhist nun and her great-uncle, Haruki, a kamikaze pilot in the Second World War. Shortlisted for this year’s Man Booker Prize, ‘A Tale for the Time Being’ by Ruth Ozeki tells the story of a diary written a decade ago by a Japanese teenage girl called Nao which is washed up on an island off British Colombia in a Hello Kitty lunchbox after the tsunami in 2011. ![]()
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