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Author Ozeki, Ruth L., author

Title A tale for the time being / Ruth Ozeki
Published Melbourne, Victoria : Text Publishing Company, 2013
Melbourne : Text Publishing Company, 2013
© 2013

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 MELB  810.54 O99551 A6/T  AVAILABLE
Description 422 pages ; 24 cm
regular print
Summary Nao lives in Tokyo. She is sixteen, and has decided to write a diary before she kills herself. She has plenty of material-school bullies, depressed parents-but she particularly wants to chronicle the life of her great-grandmother, Jiko, a Buddhist nun. And eventually, Nao thinks, her diary will find its reader. Ruth lives with her husband on the Pacific coast of Canada. A few months after the 2010 tsunami she finds a Hello Kitty lunchbox washed up on the shore. It contains a diary
Notes Includes Japanese words (Latin and Japanese script)
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [419]-420)
Notes Includes Japanese words (Latin and Japanese script)
Longlisted for the booker prize
Subject Buddhist nuns -- Fiction.
Diaries -- Fiction.
Teenage girls -- Fiction.
Teenage girls -- Juvenile fiction.
SUBJECT Tokyo (Japan) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79034998
Tokyo (Japan) -- Fiction. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008112705
Genre/Form Novels.
ISBN 9781922079183 (paperback)