A tale for the time being / Ruth Ozeki. --
Publication details: Toronto : Penguin Group, c2013.Description: 422 p. : illISBN:- 0670067040
- 9780670067046
- FIC
Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Fiction | Kimberley Branch Shelves | FIC Ozeki (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 36990002022929 |
"Viking."
Includes bibliographical references (p. [419]-420)
Nao Yasutani is a Japanese schoolgirl who plans to kill herself as a way of escaping her dreary life. First, though, she intends to write in her diary the life story of her great-grandmother Jiko, a Zen Buddhist nun. But Nao actually ends up writing her own life story, and the diary eventually washes up on the shore of Canada's Vancouver Island, where a novelist called Ruth lives. Ruth finds the diary in a freezer bag with some old letters in French and a vintage watch and begins to investigate how the bag traveled from Japan to her island, and why it contains what it does.
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