Ruth
Ozeki
A
Tale for the Time Being
Thursday,
1 May
7.00pm
in
Conversation with Ellis Avery
Winner
of the L.A. Times Book Prize and short-listed for both the Man Booker Prize
and the National Book Critics
Circle Award, A Tale for the Time Being is a novel about a
Japanese sixteen-year old, Nao, and the woman,
Ruth Ozeki, who discovers Nao's diary washed up on her island in British
Columbia. A shimmering, dynamic,
and beautiful novel, and a staff favorite here at Three Lives.
~
~ Ozeki’s profound affection for her characters makes A Tale for the Time Being
as
emotionally engaging as it is intellectually provocative. ~ The Washington Post
~
~ As we read Nao’s story and the story of Ozeki’s reading of it, as we go back
and
forth
between the text and the notes, time expands for us. It opens up onto something
resembling
narrative eternity . . . page after page, slowly unfolding. And what a
beautiful effect
that is for a novel to create. ~ Alan Cheuse, All Things Considered
~
~ A delightful yet sometimes harrowing novel . . . Ozeki takes on big themes .
. . all
drawn
into the stories of two ‘time beings,’ Ruth and Nao, whose own fates are
inextricably
bound. ~ The
New York Times Book Review
Ellis
Avery, a West Village resident, is the author of the novels The Last
Nude and The Teahouse Fire.
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