![]() ![]() We soon learn that an American novelist named Ruth has found Nao’s diary on the beach in a plastic-wrapped Hello Kitty lunchbox that also contains a batch of old letters. ![]() happens to be the diary of my last days on earth.” “A time being is someone who lives in time.” But Nao plans “to drop out of time. . . “Hi! My name is Nao, and I am a time being,” writes a funny, unhappy 16-year-old girl. From the first page of “ A Tale for the Time Being,” Ozeki plunges us into a tantalizing narration that brandishes mysteries to be solved and ideas to be explored. As contemporary as a Japanese teenager’s slang but as ageless as a Zen koan, Ruth Ozeki’s new novel combines great storytelling with a probing investigation into the purpose of existence. ![]()
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