![]() ![]() Incredible as that sounds, the transport is given more weight when Ruthīegins to believe that its owner lost the lunchbox and the diary in the tsunami of 2011. The diary begins: “Hi! My name is Nao, and I am a time being … A time being is someone who lives in time.” And how does the diary come into Ruth’s possession? It crosses the ocean wrapped in a plastic package, and placed in a Hello Kitty lunchbox. It’s Naoko’s diary, addressed to the reader, which forms a link between the two. ![]() But the 16-year-old Naoko communicates very intimately with the much older Ruth. ![]() They are separated by both time and space. If your interests lie at the interconnectedness of things, in the spaces of overlap among seemingly disparate disciplines like quantum physics and storytelling, then A Tale for the Time Being is the next book you should read.Īn ocean separates the two main characters of the novel. To capture its essence is impossible within a review, because this is a niche book for a specific kind of reader. To summarise the plot of Ruth Ozeki’s Booker-nominated novel is to do it a grave disservice. A book review’s purpose is to both summarise the plot of a novel and capture its essence, to help the book find appropriate readers. ![]()
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