“Publisher Canongate has worked with consultancy Big Active to create what it says is an ‘unprecedented’ interactive book cover for Ruth Ozeki’s new novel A Tale for the Time Being.”
February 22, 2013
Design Week
An interactive book cover from Canongate and Big Active
Angus Montgomery
“B.C. author was wrapping up her third novel when Japan was hit by the monster 2011 quake. She started rewriting.”
February 22, 2013
The Vancouver Sun
Interview: Ruth Ozeki’s new novel where dualities collide
Pete McMartin
“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
“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.”
“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