“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
The Observer: Spud is thicker than water →
June 28, 2003
The Guardian
The Observer review
“Ozeki shows more courage than most in melding a well-crafted, often comic story of the personal with the political.”
The Village Voice: The Hunger Artists
March 25, 2003
The Village Voice
The Hunger Artists
Joy Press
“All Over Creation resembles a Robert Altman film, all the characters bustling in their own orbits until they gracefully veer into each other. ”
Los Angles Times: Cracking their moral fiber →
March 23, 2003
Los Angles Times
Cracking their moral fiber
Michael Harris
“Ozeki is a gifted storyteller. All Over Creation buzzes and blooms with the cross-pollination of races and subcultures, death and birth, betrayal and reconciliation, comedy and tragedy.”
San Francisco Chronicle: The Farmer's Daughter Comes Home. March 16, 2003, Josh Emmons. →
March 16, 2003
San Francisco Chronicle
The Farmer's Daughter Comes Home
Josh Emmons
“a triumph...at once educational and entertaining, with multidimensional characters and an engaging narrative voice”