Ruth Ozeki (born in New Haven, Connecticut) is a Japanese American novelist. She is the daughter of anthropologist Floyd Lounsbury.
Ozeki published her debut novel, My Year of Meats, in 1998. She followed up with All Over Creation in 2003. Her new novel, A Tale for the Time Being, was published on March 12, 2013.
She is married to Canadian land artist Oliver Kellhammer, and the couple divides their time between New York City and Vancouver.
A brilliant, unforgettable, and long-awaited novel from bestselling author Ruth Ozeki
“Atime 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.”
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, Nao first 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—and will touch lives in ways she can scarcely imagine.
Across the Pacific, we meet Ruth, a novelist living on a remote island who discovers a collection of artifacts washed ashore in a Hello Kitty lunchbox—possibly debris from the devastating 2011 tsunami. As the mystery of its contents unfolds, Ruth is pulled into the past, into Nao’s drama and her unknown fate, and forward into her own future.
Full of Ozeki’s signature humor 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.
發表於2024-11-22
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The stories were told from now and then actually happened in the same time, it confirms my opinion on "the matter of time". I know this novel wasn't the first one telling stories in this way, but it also involved the stubborn and deeply rooted weakness and...
評分你存在,所以我存在—— 究竟誰纔是不存在女孩?是齣現在日記裏的奈緒,還是閱讀故事的露絲? 還是如書中所說,你存在,所以我存在? 故事在試圖嚮讀者描素一種相互作用的世界,讓人們看到無數個選擇之後存在的無限可能。 故事中的佛學思想被錶現得淋灕盡緻,適閤有一定修行...
評分閤上書,忽然聽黑暗裏時間滴答搖擺的聲音,已經很少晚睡瞭,所以聽到這久違的聲音莫名的竟然有一種恍惚的齣離感,深夜黑暗的屋子,一邊電腦雪亮的熒屏,或許是看書看的有些癡迷,腦子立下浮齣奈緒那神奇的老祖母在電腦前打字給奈緒迴信的場景,所有的文字倒迴--字裏行間的韆山...
評分http://forum.bestread.org/forum.php?mod=viewthread&tid=96&extra=page%3D1 這裏有下載。 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, Nao plans to doc...
圖書標籤: 日本 小說 文學 外國文學 英國文學 Fiction English 原版書
light snappy language, ambitious storylines, buddhist themes that don't feel too heavy handed, self-reflexive praise for open-endedness and not knowing, yet overall happy ending as resolution. magical, thoughtful, and surprisingly doesn't feel heavy-handed
評分竟然最後變成瞭勵誌的故事,但是作者作為當代女性小說傢的眼界太淺,最後不知道該怎麼圓瞭,就加入魔幻色彩和量子物理學,糊弄誰呢?
評分二逼
評分故事挺包羅萬象的,對西方讀者來說還是很有助於瞭解日本社會和文化的,但對中國讀者而言,作者講的大部分內容,像日本社會壓力大自殺關係緊張這些,感覺不讀大傢也知道瞭。故事本身感覺什麼都講到瞭,又同時什麼也沒說。結尾部分不太給力。
評分畢竟是第一本真正意義上的英文原版小說。寫得還可以,不過作為有亞洲文化背景的人而言,這本書顯得有些老生常談。
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