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IN THE WAKE OF THE 2011 TSUNAMI, RUTH DISCOVERS A HELLO KITTY LUNCHBOX WASHED UP ON THE SHORE OF HER BEACH HOME IN BRITISH COLUMBIA. WITHIN IT LIES A DIARY THAT EXPRESSES THE HOPES, HEARTBREAK AND DREAMS OF A YOUNG GIRL DESPERATE FOR SOMEONE TO UNDERSTAND HER. EACH TURN OF THE PAGE PULLS RUTH DEEPER INTO THE MYSTERY OF NAO'S LIFE, AND FOREVER CHANGES HER IN A WAY NEITHER COULD FORESEE. WEAVING ACROSS CONTINENTS AND DECADES, A TALE FOR THE TIME...

»Ein Triumph!« MATT HAIG  Ein Jahr nach dem Unfalltod seines Vaters beginnt der dreizehn Jahre alte Benny Oh Stimmen zu hören. Es sind die Stimmen der unbelebten Gegenstände in seinem Zuhause - seine Sneakers, eine zerbrochene Weihnachtskugel, ein Blatt welker Salat. Gleichzeitig beginnt seine Mutter Annabelle, immer mehr Dinge zu horten, bis es kaum mehr einen freien Platz auf dem Fußboden oder in den Regalen ihres Hauses gibt. Mutter und ...

Am Ufer der einsamen Insel, auf der die Schriftstellerin Ruth lebt, wird das Tagebuch der sechzehnjährigen Japanerin Nao angespült. Ruth beginnt zu lesen: von Naos Familie, die von Amerika zurück nach Japan musste, von Naos Schwierigkeiten, in der Schule Anschluss zu finden, von der Depression, die alle in der Familie erfasst, und von Naos Urgroßmutter Jiko, einer weisen Nonne, bei der Nao die Grundlagen des Zen-Buddhismus erlernt. Ruth taucht...

»Ein Triumph!« MATT HAIG  Ein Jahr nach dem Unfalltod seines Vaters beginnt der dreizehn Jahre alte Benny Oh Stimmen zu hören. Es sind die Stimmen der unbelebten Gegenstände in seinem Zuhause - seine Sneakers, eine zerbrochene Weihnachtskugel, ein Blatt welker Salat. Gleichzeitig beginnt seine Mutter Annabelle, immer mehr Dinge zu horten, bis es kaum mehr einen freien Platz auf dem Fußboden oder in den Regalen ihres Hauses gibt. Mutter und ...

No one writes like Ruth Ozeki-a triumph." -Matt Haig, New York Times bestselling author of The Midnight Library "Inventive, vivid, and propelled by a sense of wonder." -TIME "If you've lost your way with fiction over the last year or two, let The Book of Form and Emptiness light your way home." -David Mitchell, Booker Prize-finalist author of Cloud Atlas Longlisted for the Women's Prize for FictionA boy who hears the voices of objects all arou...

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After the tragic death of his father, fourteen-year-old Benny Oh begins to hear voices. The voices belong to the things in his house and sound variously pleasant, angry or sad. Then his mother develops a hoarding problem, and the voices grow more clamorous. When ignoring them doesn't work, Benny seeks refuge in the silence of a large public library. There he meets a mesmerising street artist with a smug pet ferret, a homeless philosopher-poet ...

Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award, this is a timeless and compassionate novel about what it means to be human

A revelatory treatise from the Booker-shortlisted author of A Tale for the Time Being about how her face has shaped and been shaped by her life

A compelling and compassionate novel about environmental activism, community and starting over, from the Booker-shortlisted author

A cross-cultural tale of two women brought together by the intersections of television and industrial agriculture, fertility and motherhood, life and love, from the Booker-shortlisted author

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 BeingAfter the tragic death of 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 sen...

WINNER OF THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2022One year after the death of his beloved musician father, thirteen-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 pai...

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 BeingAfter 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 ...

Ruth vindt op het strand van een desolaat eiland in Canada een aangespoelde Hello Kitty-lunchbox. In de trommel zit een Japans dagboek en een oud horloge. Nieuwsgierig verdiept Ruth zich in haar bijzondere vondst.Door het lezen van het dagboek wordt ze in de wereld van het zestienjarige meisje Nao gezogen. Het lijkt alsof er een onzichtbare draad tussen beide vrouwen gespannen is. In Tokio heeft Nao besloten dat er maar ייn uitweg is voor haar...

Poveste pentru timpul prezent (A Tale for the Time Being) se afla pe lista scurta a prestigiosului Man Booker Prize, editia 2013. Traducere din limba engleza de Ana-Maria Lisman Poveste pentru timpul prezent spune cum scrisul si cititul pot lega doi oameni ce nu s-au vazut niciodata, totul prin intermediul unui jurnal gasit intr-o cutie de mincare Hello Kitty. Poveste pentru timpul prezent este o apologie a puterii miraculoase a scrisului ...

A Tokyo, la sedicenne Nao crede che ci sia una sola via di fuga dalla sua dolorosa solitudine e dal bullismo dei compagni di classe. Ma prima di farla finita, si ripropone di raccontare la vita della sua bisnonna, una monaca buddhista ultracentenaria. Un diario è il suo unico passatempo, un diario che toccherà molte vite in modi che Nao non immagina neppure. Sull'altra sponda del 'Pacifico troviamo Ruth, scrittrice che vive su un isola sperdut...

A brilliant, unforgettable novel from bestselling author Ruth Ozeki-shortlisted for the Booker Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award"A time being is someone who lives in time, and that means you, and me, and every one of us who is, or was, or ever will be."In Tokyo, sixteen-year-old Nao has decided there's only one escape from her aching loneliness and her classmates' bullying. But before she ends it all, Nao first plans to document...

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