Ruth Ozeki is a novelist, filmmaker and Zen Buddhist
priest. She is the author of The Book of Form and Emptiness which
won the Women's Prize for Fiction in 2022, My Year of Meats, All
Over Creation and A Tale for the Time Being, which was shortlisted
for the 2013 Man Booker Prize and translated into 28 languages.
Ozeki has also written a short memoir, The Face: A Time Code. She
is affiliated with the Everyday Zen Foundation and lives in
Northampton, Massachusetts, where she teaches creative writing at
Smith College and is the Grace Jarcho Ross 1933 Professor of
Humanities.
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This is one of the most deeply moving and thought-provoking novels
I have read in a long time. In precise and luminous prose, Ozeki
captures both the sweep and detail of our shared humanity, moving
seamlessly between Nao's story and our own
* * author of THE SONG OF ACHILLES * *
A triumph . . . Ozeki explores what it means to be human in this
moment, right now (Nao). Her novel is saturated with love, ideas
and compassion. In short, an absolute treat
* * Sunday Times * *
A Tale for the Time Being is a timeless story. Ruth Ozeki
beautifully renders not only the devastation of the collision
between man and the natural world, but also the often miraculous
results of it. She is a deeply intelligent and humane writer who
offers her insights with a grace that beguiles. I truly love this
novel
*Alice Sebold*
Ingenious and touching, A Tale for the Time Being is also highly
readable. And interesting: the contrast of cultures is especially
well done
*Philip Pullman*
A beautifully interwoven novel about magic and loss and the
incomprehensible threads that connect our lives. I just finished
it, and loved it
* * author of EAT, PRAY, LOVE * *
Funny, heartbreaking, moving and profound . . . The warmth,
compassion, wisdom and insight with which Ozeki pieces all these
stories together will have the reader linked in a similarly
profound way to this fantastic novel
* * Independent * *
There is far too much to say about this remarkable and ambitious
book in a few sentences. This is for real and not just another
hyped-up blurb. A Tale For the Time Being is a great achievement,
and it is the work of a writer at the height of her powers. Ruth
Ozeki has not only reinvigorated the novel itself, the form, but
she's given us the tried and true, deep and essential pleasure of
characters who we love and who matter
* * author of A MAP OF THE WORLD * *
A Tale for the Time Being is equal parts mystery and meditation.
The mystery is a compulsive, gritty page-turner. The meditation --
on time and memory, on the oceanic movement of history, on
impermanence and uncertainty, but also resilience and bravery - is
deep and gorgeous and wise. A completely satisfying, continually
surprising, wholly remarkable achievement, this is a book to be
read and reread
* * author of THE JANE AUSTEN BOOK CLUB * *
A huge, compassionate and cleverly wrought novel
* * TLS * *
Packed with philosophical asides about time, and is unexpectedly
moving
* * The Times * *
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