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Family Values Review Old Jiko style: Book is good. Book is bad. Same thing. Overall, I really enjoyed this book. I loved the writing style and the mystery between Nao, Ruth and the Hello Kitty lunchbox. I adored Old Jiko and her words of wisdom. I was mostly interested in the stores of Haruki #1 and Haruki #2 It lost me a little bit towards the end with the quantum physics stuff and the receding ending to the story but I suppose the whole point was to make you consider the possibility of different worlds. I'm not sure that I believe! Many readers may struggle with the focus on suicide, bullying and the dark side of Nao's life, but for me those sections helped provide necessary depth to the overall story. Those sections also made this a slow read for me....at times I had to force myself to go back because the story was sad and difficult for me even though I wanted to know what happened to our characters. Overall I think it is well worth reading. Loved this message-in-a-bottle book! Told in two voices across a span of years, hinting that time is nonlinear and characters live in the moment when they are read. The author is a Zen Buddhist priest addressing the concepts of time, the life-giving power of words, quantum mechanics, multiple universes, and life as seen thru the eyes of a Japanese teen. A lovely, difficult book that will stay with me for a long time. A Tale for the Time Being is a "You must change your life" kind of book. It's about time, death, consciousness, causality, and making meaning. It's also quirky and metafictional, but is nevertheless an accessible read, with likable characters and fairly linear storytelling. Nao is a charming but depressed Japanese teenager dealing with brutal bullies, a suicidal father, and the aftershocks of family trauma from the Second World War. Nao keeps a diary that mysteriously ends up in the hands of Ruth, a fictionalized version of the author, who tries to track down Nao and reconstruct her life and fate. The novel dips its toe into the realms of speculative and surrealist fiction as it explores this relationship between reader and diarist. A Tale for the Time Being feels like a catalog of strategies for responding to the impermanence and suffering of life: from suicide to making art to mindless Internet surfing to planting trees to the meditation practice of Nao's larger-than-life Buddhist nun great-grandmother. It's a book that goes deep, and at times it is an uncomfortable read. The forthright depictions of bullying, suicide, war, natural disaster, and sex work are never gratuitous, but they are graphic. That said, A Tale for the Time Being is absolutely a novel about hope. After Nao's spiral into darkness, subsequent moments of joy and rebirth feel earned. If I didn't give this book five stars, it's only because it felt a little too linear, despite the meta, timey-wimey storytelling conceit. I wanted just a bit more ambiguity and weirdness, especially near the end. Overall an excellent, profound read, and one that will hopefully inspire me to spend some time on my zafu this winter (I have a zafu and zabuton lovingly made by hippies in the Blue Ridge Mountains, so I truly have no excuse). Have you ever had a book that seems to be calling to you from your nightstand or your book shelf? It sounds silly, but that is what this book has been doing to me. I would notice it there sometimes, and I would pick it up and look at it, and even open the pages, but I would put it back because I didn't think the time was right, or that I was in the right frame of mind to read it. Well I finally picked it up again, and this time decided to read it. It would turn out to be one of the last books that I would read this year, but it would be the best. I have read some fabulous books this year, so I don't say this lightly. Ruth Ozeki seemed to have written this book for me at this my time of life. It is a book that actually made me examine and reevaluate my life. It made me appreciate and be thankful for the life that i have had. It made me think about why things in the world have happened the way they have. When a barnacle-covered "Hello-Kitty" lunchbox washes up on shore on a remote island just off the coast of British Columbia, it changes Ruth's life. Ruth and her husband Oliver are living a survivalist lifestyle. Ruth is an author and Oliver a very talented botanist. When Ruth finds a diary in the lunchbox written in English by a young Japanese girl named Nao Yasutani, she does not realize how reading this diary will forever change her life, and change her thoughts about what has been and is still happening in the world. Reading Nao's story is heartbreaking, but it is also totally engaging. Ozeki does not spare her readers with coloured-over descriptions of horrific happenings. The descriptions are graphic and totally gripping, and they pull the reader in, kicking and screaming, to her fictional world. The book restored my faith in human nature, and made me realize that no matter how bad things may appear, faith, love, family and human compassion, can make things better, and change our beliefs and our opinions, and maybe even change the world a little too. This is a lot for one novel to accomplish, but this one does all of this, as well as tell a great story about a brave 16-year old Japanese girl. and a 30 something Canadian writer who meet through the pages of a diary.
In clever and deeply affecting ways, Ruth Ozeki’s luminous new novel explores notions of duality, causation, honour, and time. ... Though [the character] Ruth is clearly intended as a semi-autobiographical portrait of the author, it’s the character of Nao, in all her angsty adolescent dismissiveness, that Ozeki truly pulls off (here’s an author who should be writing YA novels). 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....It can leave you scratching your head – for starters, the main character of the novel seems to be Ruth Ozeki herself, or at least, a fairly obvious facsimile of her – but ultimately, the effect of such riddles is charming, earnest and very much a departure from your typical literary novel....Like them, Ozeki manages to turn existential conundrums into a playful, joyful and pleasantly mind-bending dialogue between reader and writer. Here’s hoping that this book will find its way to an audience just as excited to participate in it. "A Tale for the Time Being"... is an exquisite novel: funny, tragic, hard-edged and ethereal at once. [It's] heady stuff, but it hangs together for a couple of reasons — the exuberance of Ozeki's writing, the engaging nature of her characters and, not least, her scrupulous insistence that it doesn't have to hang together, that even as she ties up loose ends, others come unbound. Seen from space, or from the vantage point of those conversant with Zen principles, A Tale for the Time Being is probably a deep and illuminating piece of work, with thoughtful things to say about the slipperiness of time. But for those positioned lower in the planet's stratosphere, Ozeki's novel often feels more like the great Pacific gyre it frequently evokes: a vast, churning basin of mental flotsam in which Schrödinger's cat, quantum mechanics, Japanese funeral rituals, crow species, fetish cafes, the anatomy of barnacles, 163 footnotes and six appendices all jostle for attention. It's an impressive amount of stuff. One version of you might be intrigued. Another might pray it doesn't land on your shore. If you’re a fan of the metaphysician Martin Heidegger, or the physicist Erwin Schrödinger, you will be pleased at the novel’s tip of the hat to their abstruse notions of time and sub-atomic space. There’s even an appendix to the novel explaining the “thought experiment” known to the world as “Schrödinger’s cat...But the novel suffers from a tinge of self satisfaction. It pits sensitive souls like the involuntary kamikaze pilot who loves French literature against brutal army officers, and it’s not a fair fight. The fight becomes Us — readers who derive spiritual sustenance from Marcel Proust, and appreciate “the value of kindness, of education, of independent thinking and liberal ideals” — versus Them, who are sheer brutes. Ingår i förlagsserienHar som instuderingsbokPriserPrestigefyllda urvalUppmärksammade listor
En magisk bert̃telse om tidens gt̄a P ̄en enslig ̲utanfr̲ Kanadas Stillahavskust bor fr̲fattaren Ruth med sin man. Nr̃ hon en dag tar en promenad hittar hon en Hello Kitty-matld̄a som spolats upp p ̄stranden. Inuti finns ett gammalt armbandsur, nḡra gulnade brev, en anteckningsbok och en dagbok som en japansk flicka, Nao, skrivit under sina sista dagar p ̄jorden.I den bert̃tar Nao om sig sjl̃v, en rotls̲ tonr̄ing som trakasseras av sina klasskompisar, om sin gammelmormor, en zenbuddhistisk nunna, om sin gammelmorbror som var en poesil̃skande kamikazepilot och om sin far, som sk̲er p ̄nt̃et fr̲ att hitta hur man p ̄bs̃ta st̃t begr̄ sjl̃vmord.Ruth inser att dagboken ms̄te ha skrivits fr̲ flera r̄ sedan, men det kñns som om hennes och Naos liv r̃ sammanflt̃ade. Som om det fr̲flutna och nuet skulle kunna fr̲enas.En saga om tidens vs̃en r̃ en sinnrik och oemotstn̄dlig bert̃telse om banden mñniskor emellan och sk̲andet efter tillhr̲ighet. En roman som rr̲ sig mellan fantasi och verklighet, p ̄samma gn̄g djupt allvarlig och full av humor, personlig och allmñgiltig, i sin betraktelse v̲er tiden och historien. Ozeki r̃ en av mina favoritfr̲fattare och hr̃ r̃ hon som bs̃t fr̲trollande, intelligent, rolig, och hjr̃tknipande, ofta p ̄samma sida. En av dessa bc̲ker som fr̄ dig att tro p ̄litteraturen igen. Junot Diaz Hon r̃ en oerhr̲t intelligent mñsklig fr̲fattare som bjuder p ̄sina insikter med en utsk̲thet som betvingar. Alice Sebold En vackert sammanvṽd roman om magi och fr̲lust och de obegripliga trd̄ar som binder samman vr̄a liv. Jag l̃skade den. Elisabeth GilbertRuth Ozekis nya roman, p ̄en gn̄g samtida som japansk tonr̄sslang och tidls̲ som en zenbuddhistisk koan, kombinerar ett fantastiskt historiebert̃tande med en prv̲ande undersk̲ning av livets mening. ... Den djupa tillgivenhet som Ozeki kñner fr̲ sina romanfigurer gr̲ En saga om tidens vs̃en lika kñsloms̃sigt fñgslande som den r̃ intellektuellt utmanande.The Washington Post En fantastisk fr̲fattare. En saga om tidens vs̃en kommer efter tio r̄s tystnad. Det r̃ absolut vr̃t vñtan. Hon r̃ m̲sint och lekfull och fr̲bryllas v̲er livets gt̄or och inte minst v̲er skrivandet sjl̃vt. Ozeki undersk̲er hur det r̃ att vara mñniska just i detta g̲onblick, just nu. Hennes roman r̃ full av kr̃lek, iděr och medkñsla. Det r̃, kort sagt, en upplevelse. Sunday TimesRolig, hjr̃tslitande, rr̲ande och djup roman. Vr̃men, medkñslan, visdomen och insikterna som Ozeki pusslar ihop alla dessa historier med fr̲ ṽen ls̃aren sinnrikt in i denna fantastiska roman. IndependentDen tñjer p ̄romanens grñser samtidigt som det r̃ ren njutning att ls̃a. SpectatorFull av filosofiska funderingar kring tid, och ovñtat rr̲ande. The Times Boken r̃ som allra starkast i sin skildring av familjelivets kr̃lek och smr̃ta den rr̲ande beskrivningen av sm ̄ofr̲rt̃ter och trs̲t i Ruths k̃tenskap och i den smr̃tsamma skildringen av relationen mellan Nao och hennes depressive far... En tvingande uppvx̃tskildring. TelegraphOzeki utvecklar ms̃terligt tv ̄parallella historier och skapar en virituell dialog mellan fr̲fattaren med skrivkramp och flicakn som skriver dagbok... lika kñsloms̃sigt engagerande som intellektuellt utmanande. Washington Post verst̃tare:Molle Kanmert Sjl̲ander [Elib] Inga biblioteksbeskrivningar kunde hittas. |
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