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A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is A Tale for the Time Being about?
Ruth Ozeki’s bewitching metafictional novel about our shared humanity and the search for home.Ruth discovers a ‘Hello Kitty’ lunchbox washed up on the shore of her beach home. Within it lies a diary that expresses the hopes and dreams of a young girl. She suspects it might have arrived on a drift of debris from the 2011 tsunami that devastated Japan. With every turn of the page, she is sucked deeper into an enchanting mystery. Full of Ozeki's signature humour 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. "From the first page of A Tale for the Time Being, Ozeki plunges us into a tantalizing narration that brandishes mysteries to be solved and ideas to be explored ... Ozeki masterfully develops the two parallel stories, creating a virtual dialogue between the blocked writer and the diarist...plenty of Japanese pop culture, juicily but scathingly portrayed as exploitative of vulnerable young women and a tool in the enforcement of conformism ... She finishes off her dazzling ta
Who reads A Tale for the Time Being?
It is typically read by readers looking for immersive, entertainment-first reading.
Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Ruth Ozeki
- Publisher
- Canongate Books
- Published
- 2013
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781101606254
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Contemporary Fiction, Humanities
- Rating
- 3.98 / 5 (53,092 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-13