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A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki
40.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
Nao lives in Tokyo. She is sixteen, and has decided to write a diary before she kills herself. She has plenty of material - school bullies, depressed parents - but she particularly wants to chronicle the life of her great-grandmother, Jiko, a Buddhist nun. And eventually, Nao thinks, her diary will find ...Show more
A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki
26.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Nao lives in Tokyo. She is sixteen, and has decided to write a diary before she kills herself. She has plenty of material - school bullies, depressed parents - but she particularly wants to chronicle the life of her great-grandmother, Jiko, a Buddhist nun. Eventually, Nao thinks, her diary will find its ...Show more
All Over Creation by Ruth L. Ozeki
34.95 NZD
Category: Fiction
Meet Yumi Fuller. A Japanese American prodigal daughter, Yumi - aka Yummy - is returning home to the Idaho potato farm she ran away from twenty-five years earlier. Then a freewheeling hippie chick, Yumi is now a (semi) responsible parent and a professor with a side gig selling lava lots in Hawaii. But c ...Show more
All Over Creation by Ruth Ozeki
30.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction
Yumi Fuller hasn't set foot in Liberty Falls, Idaho - heart of the potato-farming industry - since she ran away at age fifteen. Twenty-five years later, the prodigal daughter returns to confront her dying parents, her best friend and her conflicted past, and finds herself caught up in an altogether new ...Show more
My Year of Meat by Ruth Ozeki
27.99 NZD
34.95 (19% off)
Category: General Fiction
'I had started my year as a documentarian. I wanted to tell the truth, to effect change, to make a difference. And up to a point, I had succeeded . . . I am haunted by all the things - big things and little things - that threaten to slip through the cracks, untold, out of history.' In a single, eye-open ...Show more
The Book of Form and Emptiness by Ruth Ozeki
40.00 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction | Reading Level: very good
If you let it - if you listen - a book could change your life. After his father dies, Benny Oh finds he can hear objects talking- teapots, marbles and sharpened pencils, babbling in anger or distress. His mother, struggling to support their household alone, starts collecting things to give her comfort. ...Show more
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