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A Tale for the Time Being

A Tale for the Time Being

Fantasy Literary Fiction School Stories Psychological Fiction Coming of Age

田中文, Ruth L. Ozeki

Authors: 田中文, Ruth L. Ozeki
Print type: BOOK

Description:

In Tokyo, sixteen-year-old Nao has decided there's only one escape from her aching loneliness and her classmates' bullying. But before she ends it all, she plans to document the life of her great-grandmother, a Buddhist nun who's lived more than a century. A diary is Nao's only solace. Across the Pacific a novelist living on a remote island discovers artifacts washed ashore in a Hello Kitty lunchbox and is pulled into Nao's drama and her unknown fate. (Bestseller)