- Women authors, Teenage girls, Buddhist nuns, Fiction
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, she 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. Across the Pacific a novelist living on a remote island discovers artifacts washed ashore in a Hello Kitty lunchbox and is pulled into Nao's drama and her unknown fate. (Bestseller)
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- contemporarynostalgic
- unpretentiousprestige
- contemplativerelentless
- resolvedopen-ended
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- Author
- Ruth L. Ozeki, 田中文
- First published
- 2013
- Pages
- 438
- Publisher
- Text Publishing, Text Publishing Company, Viking
- Editions
- 23
- Language
- Chinese, Japanese, Russian, English
- ISBN
- 9780143124870
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Ruth Ozeki was born and raised in Connecticut by an American father and a Japanese mother. She is a novelist, filmmaker and Zen Buddhist priest whose books have garnered international acclaim. Her first two novels, ***My Year of Meats*** (1998) and ***All Over Creation*** (2003), have been translated into eleven languages and published in fourteen countries. Her third novel, ***A Tale for the Time Being*** (2013), won the LA Times Book Prize, was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award, and has been published in over thirty countries. **Photo** By Latrippi - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, <https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=32116034>
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