“This is a book that does not give up its multiple meanings easily, gently but insistently instructing the reader to progress slowly in order to contemplate the porous membrane that separates fact from fiction, self from circumstance, past from present.”
April 1, 2013
New York Times
Japanese Diary Washes Ashore, Its Mysteries a Gift
Lisa Schwarzbaum
March 30, 2013
Joie de Vie Blog
A Tale For The Time Being | Book Review 6
Pia Klancar
“A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki is expansive, provocative and sometimes rather confusing. But that’s okay. It’s supposed to be.”
Mar. 29 2013
The Globe and Mail
A wild gamble pays off
Lucy Silag
“Ruth Ozeki’s A Tale for the Time Being makes you question your experiences as a reader, as a person on this earth, and as a being in time and space. It’s ambitious, it’s multilayered, and it’s fantastic.”
March 28, 2013
Hyphen
Zen Buddhist Priesthood Becomes Her
Jenny Yap
Ruth interviewed by Sedge Thomson about her new novel, A Tale for the Time Being on West Coast Live, March 23, 2013. West Coast Live broadcasts every Saturday from the San Francisco Ferry Building via KALW.org .
March 23, 2013
West Coast Live
Ruth Ozeki on West Coast Live
Interviewed by Sedge Thomson