“A beautifully interwoven novel about magic and loss and the incomprehensible threads that connect our lives. ”
February 19, 2013
Elizabeth Gilbert’s Facebook Timeline
TODAY’S BOOK RECOMMENDATION… “A Tale for the Time Being”…
Elizabeth Gilbert
Publisher's Weekly: A lyrical disquisition on writing’s power →
“Ozeki’s absorbing third novel (after All Over Creation) is an extended meditation on writing, time, and people in time…. Nao’s winsome voice contrasts with Ruth’s intellectual ponderings to make up a lyrical disquisition on writing’s power to transcend time and place. ”
January 14, 2013
Publisher’s Weekly
“…a lyrical disquisition on writing’s power to transcend time and place.”
Books to Look Forward to in 2013 →
“Ruth Ozeki offers a sad, lovely tale about the accidental, intercontinental connection between a teenage author in Tokyo and her only reader.”
December 27, 2012
The Atlantic
Books to Look Forward to in 2013
The Bookseller interview: Ruth Ozeki: Japanese tale →
“The author, filmmaker and Zen Buddhist priest impresses with a beguiling Japanese-based coming of age story. Tom Tivnan reports.”
December 21, 2012
The Bookseller
The Bookseller interview: Ruth Ozeki: Japanese tale (PDF)
Tom Tivnan