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From the author of My Year of Meats—a dramatic story of a prodigal daughter's homecoming to a heartland of genetically modified cropsMy Year of Meats, Ruth Ozeki’s delicious debut novel, won a devoted following and was hailed by critics as inventing a new genre: the “eco-saga.”
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Contemporary and classical in form.
- contemporarynostalgic
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- unpretentiousprestige
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- Author
- Ruth L. Ozeki
- First published
- 2003
- Pages
- 426
- Publisher
- Viking, Penguin Books, Penguin Group USA, Inc.
- Editions
- 13
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780786124855
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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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