Ruth Ozeki

A novelist on a remote island in the Pacific is linked to a bullied and depressed Tokyo teenager after discovering a Hello Kitty lunchbox that washed ashore in this new novel from the award-wining, best-selling author of My Year of Meats.

A Tale for the Time Being

A brilliantly inventive new novel about loss, growing up, and our relationship with things, by the Booker Prize-finalist author of A Tale for the Time Being After the tragic death his beloved musician father, fourteen-year-old Benny Oh begins to hear voices. The voices belong to the things in his house--a sneaker, a broken Christmas ornament, a piece of wilted lettuce. Although Benny doesn't understand what these things are saying, he can sense their emotional tone; some are pleasant, a gentle hum or coo, but others are snide, angry and full of pain. When his mother, Annabelle, develops a hoarding problem, the voices grow more clamorous. At first, Benny tries to ignore them, but soon the voices follow him outside the house, onto the street and at school, driving him at last to seek refuge in the silence of a large public library, where objects are well-behaved and know to speak in whispers. There, Benny discovers a strange new world, where "things happen." He falls in love with a mesmerizing street artist with a smug pet ferret, who uses the library as her performance space. He meets a homeless philosopher-poet, who encourages him to ask important questions and find his own voice amongst the many. And he meets his very own Book--a talking thing--who narrates Benny's life and teaches him to listen to the things that truly matter. With its blend of sympathetic characters, riveting plot, and vibrant engagement with everything from jazz, to climate change, to our attachment to material possessions, The Book of Form and Emptiness is classic Ruth Ozeki--bold, wise, poignant, playful, humane and heartbreaking.

The Book of Form and Emptiness

My year of meats

Returning home to the Idaho potato farm she fled twenty-five years earlier, Yumi struggles with her father's terminal illness, her mother's Alzheimer's, her former best friend, and a former lover who once offended the town.

All Over Creation

A novelist on a remote island in the Pacific is linked to a bullied and depressed Tokyo teenager after discovering a Hello Kitty lunchbox that washed ashore.

Timecode of a Face

In Time Code of a Face, bestselling author Ruth Ozeki recounts, in moment-to-moment detail, a profound encounter with memory and the mirror. The author challenges herself to spend three hours staring into her own reflection, recording her thoughts, and noticing every possible detail. Those solitary hours open up a lifetime's worth of meditations on race, age, family, death, the body, self doubt and, finally, acceptance. In a lyrical essay suffused with her Zen Buddhist practice and thoroughly unlike anything in the author's celebrated novels, Ozeki shows us just how rich and intimate the terrain of one's own face can be. Praise for Ruth Ozeki “Ozeki is one of my favorite novelists....bewitching, intelligent, hilarious, and heartbreaking, often on the same page.” —Junot Díaz, Pulitzer Prize winner and author of This Is How You Lose Her “Ozeki joins the constellation of such environmentally aware writers as Barbara Kingsolver, Annie Proulx, and Margaret Atwood.” —Chicago Tribune “A careful, considerate writer.” —Booklist Ruth Ozeki is a novelist, filmmaker, and Zen Buddhist priest. Her first two novels, My Year of Meats (1998) and All Over Creation (2003), have been translated into eleven languages and published in fourteen countries. Her most recent work, A Tale for the Time-Being (2013), won the LA Times book prize, was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and the National Book Critic's Circle Award, and has been published in over thirty countries. Ruth's documentary and dramatic independent films, including Halving the Bones, have been shown on PBS, at the Sundance Film Festival, and at colleges and universities across the country. A longtime Buddhist practitioner, Ruth was ordained in 2010 and is affiliated with the Brooklyn Zen Center and the Everyday Zen Foundation. She lives in British Columbia and New York City, and is currently the Elizabeth Drew Professor of Creative Writing at Smith College.

A Time Code

The Face

Numa remota ilha do Canadá, a escritora Ruth cata mariscos com o marido na praia quando se depara com um saco plástico coberto de cracas que envolve uma lancheira da Hello Kitty. Dentro, encontra um livro de Marcel Proust, Em busca do tempo perdido, e se surpreende ao descobrir que o miolo, na verdade, é o diário de uma menina japonesa, Nao. A sacola misteriosa, segundo os rumores dos habitantes, é mais um dos destroços do último tsunami que devastou o Japão e foi levado pelas correntezas até a ilha.Desde então, Ruth é tragada pela história do diário de Nao, uma menina que, para escapar de uma realidade de sofrimento – de bullying dos colegas e de um pai desempregado e suicida –, resolve passar seus últimos dias lendo as cartas do bisavô, um falecido piloto camicase da Segunda Guerra Mundial, e contando sobre a vida da avó, uma monja budista de 104 anos. O que Ruth não esperava era que o diário iria levá-la a uma viagem onde ela e Nao podem finalmente se encontrar fora do tempo e do espaço. “Uma obra muito bem escrita sobre magia e perdas e os fios incompreensíveis que ligam nossas vidas. Amei.” Elizabeth Gilbert, autora do best-seller Comer, rezar e amar “Magnífico... São personagens que nos tocam profundamente e nos dão lições de vida essenciais através da magia de contar histórias. Uma obra-prima, pura e simplesmente.” Kirkus Reviews“A voz de Nao Yasutani, uma estudante de dezesseis anos, é o coração e a alma deste livro muito gratificante... O estilo japonês contemporâneo e o uso do realismo mágico lembram o autor Haruki Murakami.” USA Today

A terra inteira e o céu infinito

Olur da biri size bu kitap hakkında bir şey sorarsa ona sadece yalan söyleyin. Tokyo'da, katlanamadığı yalnızlığına son vermeyi düşünen 16 yaşında genç bir kız: Nao. Pasifik'in öteki tarafında ise ıssız bir adada ilham perisini arayan bir yazar: Ruth. Ve bu hayatları birleştiren sahil kenarına vurmuş bir günlük: Nao'ın günlüğü. Nao'ın tek arzusu, hayatına son vermeden önce, Budist rahibesi olan büyük büyükannesinin hayatını kaleme almaktır. Gözlerden ırak yaşayan yazar Ruth ise bir gün sahilde gezerken kıyıya vurmuş bir çanta bulur. Bu, 2011 yılında Japonya kıyılarını vuran tsunaminin sürüklediği eşyalardan biridir muhtemelen. Gizem, gün ışığına çıkmaya başladıkça Ruth geçmişe, Nao'ın acı yaşantısına, onun bilinmez kaderine ve aynı zamanda kendi geleceğine doğru yol alır. Yazar ve okur, geçmiş ve şimdi, gerçek ve kurgu, kuantum fiziği, tarih ve mitolojinin iç içe geçtiği Benim Balığım Yaşayacak, benliği ve tüm dünyayı keşfe çıkan özgün bir hikâye. "Ozeki bu sefer büyük oynuyor... Kaderleri birbirine mühürlenmiş iki zaman kahramanının, Ruth ve Nao'ın peşinden sürüklüyor bizleri." - The New York Times Book Review "Ozeki'nin bu romanı, edebiyattan ve entelektüel bir coşkuyla sarmalanmış iyi bir hikâyeden haz alanları kesinlikle memnun edecek." - Publishers Weekly

Benim Balığım Yaşayacak

A Novel

A cross-cultural tale of two women brought together by the intersections of television and industrial agriculture, fertility and motherhood, life and love—the breakout hit by the celebrated author of A Tale for the Time Being and The Book of Form and Emptiness Ruth Ozeki’s mesmerizing debut novel has captivated readers and reviewers worldwide. When documentarian Jane Takagi-Little finally lands a job producing a Japanese television show that just happens to be sponsored by an American meat-exporting business, she uncovers some unsavory truths about love, fertility, and a dangerous hormone called DES. Soon she will also cross paths with Akiko Ueno, a beleaguered Japanese housewife struggling to escape her overbearing husband. Hailed by USA Today as “rare and provocative” and awarded the Kirayama Prize for Literature of the Pacific Rim, My Year of Meats is a modern-day take on Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle for fans of Michael Pollan, Margaret Atwood, and Barbara Kingsolver.

My Year of Meats

El efecto del aleteo de una mariposa en Japón

O livro da forma e do vazio

Après En même temps, toute la terre et tout le ciel, le nouveau roman tant attendu de Ruth Ozeki, lauréat du prestigieux Women's Prize for Fiction. Puissante et lyrique, une œuvre unique pour nous conter l'histoire poignante d'une mère et de son fils sur le point de perdre pied. Il y a un an, la vie du jeune Benny basculait. Son père adoré trouvait la mort dans un accident. Depuis, Benny et sa mère Annabelle souffrent du vide laissé par l'absence. Depuis, Annabelle remplit névrotiquement la maison de tous les objets qu'elle peut trouver. Depuis, Benny entend des voix. Comment trouver la paix au milieu du chaos ? Comment s'ouvrir aux autres quand on est envahi par la solitude ? Son refuge, Benny va le trouver à la bibliothèque. Un lieu propice au calme, à l'ordre et aux rencontres. Il y aura cette jeune graffeuse et son malicieux furet, et ce SDF poète et philosophe. Il y aura surtout un livre. Le livre qui va raconter sa vie à Benny, l'aider à entendre sa propre voix et à se reconnecter à sa mère. Pour que mère et fils retrouvent enfin le chemin de l'apaisement...

Le Fardeau tranquille des choses

Bicimin ve Boslugun Kitabi

Az idő partjain

Een Amerikaans-Japanse vrouw vindt op een Canadees strand een daar aangespoelde lunchdoos met o.a. het dagboek van een Japans meisje.

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All over Creation

When documentary maker Jane Takagi-Little finally lands a job producing a Japanese television show that just happens to be sponsored by an American meat-exporting business, she uncovers some unsavoury truths about love, fertility, and a dangerous hormone called DES. Soon she will also cross paths with Akiko Ueno, a beleaguered Japanese housewife struggling to escape her overbearing husband. And the battle with 'big beef' will be on in earnest. Ruth Ozeki's much-loved debut novel, winner of the Kirayama Prize for Literature of the Pacific Rim, represents the entertaining face of ecological activism. It will delight fans of Michael Pollan, Margaret Atwood and Barbara Kingsolver. Ruth Ozeki was born and raised in Connecticut by an American father and a Japanese mother. She has lived in Japan, where among other things she worked as a bar hostess and studied flower arrangement, Noh drama and mask carving. Ruth practises Zen Buddhism and was ordained as a priest in 2010. She is the bestselling author of A Tale for the Time Being and All Over Creation. textpublishing.com.au 'Ruth Ozeki masks a deeper purpose a light tone...A comical-satirical-farcical-epical-tragical-romantical novel.' Jane Smiley, Chicago Tribune 'A joy to read.' Elle 'Wonderfully wild and bracing...A feast that leaves you hungry for whatever Ozeki cooks up next.' Newsweek 'Romance, agri-business, self-discovery, cross-cultural misunderstanding - it takes a talent like Ruth Ozeki's to blend all these ingredients beautifully together. My Year of Meats is a sensitive and compelling portrait of two modern women.' Arthur Golden, author of Memoirs of a Geisha

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