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A Tale for the Time Being

by Ruth Ozeki - £9.99  Faber & Faber (2022)
paperback    ISBN 13: 9781838856250 | ISBN 10: 1838856250

“Do you know what a time being is? Well, if you give me a moment, I will tell you. 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”
 
Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award, this is a timeless and compassionate novel about what it means to be human.
 
In the wake of the 2011 tsunami, Ruth discovers a Hello Kitty lunchbox washed up on the shore of her beach home in British Columbia. Within it lies a diary that expresses the hopes, heartbreak and dreams of a young girl desperate for someone to understand her. Each turn of the page pulls Ruth deeper into the mystery of Nao’s life, and forever changes her in a way neither could foresee.
 
Weaving across continents and decades, A Tale for the Time Being is an extraordinary novel about our shared humanity and the search for home.

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