The release date for the English version of 'A Tale for the Time Being' by
Ruth Ozeki is Mar 2013. If you enjoy this novel, it is available for buy as a paperback from Barnes & Noble or Indigo, as an ebook on the Amazon Kindle store, or as an audiobook on Audible.
Nao, sixteen, has come to the conclusion that there is only one way out of her excruciating loneliness and the persecution she endures from her peers in Tokyo. However, before she takes her own life, Nao intends to record the story of her great-grandmother, a Buddhist nun who has lived for more than a century. Nao's sole comfort is her journal, which has the power to change people in ways she can never have imagined.
Ruth, an author living on a secluded island across the Pacific, meets us there. She may have found artefacts from the horrific 2011 tsunami in a Hello Kitty lunchbox. Ruth is drawn forward into her own future, into the drama around Nao and her unknowable destiny, and into the past as the mystery surrounding its contents deepens.
A Tale for the Time Being, full of Ozeki's trademark humour and profoundly examining the link between writer and reader, past and present, reality and fiction, quantum physics, history, and myth, is a wonderfully original and captivating tale of our common humanity and the quest for home.