“I’ve rarely encountered a novel that has made me think about our world quite as much as this one has, where distance and time are mutable depending on the observer, and what is a reader if not the ultimate observer?”
March 7, 2013
As the Crowe Flies (and Reads!)
A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki
“The Japanese-American writer on waiting for inspiration, the search for lost time – and her helpful husband.”
March 7, 2013
The Observer
Interview: 'This book is about the character creating a novelist'
Anita Sethi
“Rana Mitter meets Ruth Ozeki whose novel “A Tale for the Time Being” spans Japan’s twentieth century and connects the trauma of the second world war with the recent Tsunami and Fukushima nuclear disasters: all this through the prism of a little girl’s attempt to write the story of her great-grandmother’s life.”
March 6, 2013
BBC Radio 3
Interview: Night Waves – Danny Boyle, David Livingstone, Ruth Ozeki
“I usually finish a book in a day or two. With A Tale for the Time Being I wanted to keep reading, but I also wanted to spend as much time with these characters as possible.”
March 2, 2013
The Pretty Good Gatsby
A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki
Leah
“Wow...just WOW! This book took my breath away.… As if by reading it I was contributing to it. ”
February 26, 2013
Good Reads
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