A Tale for the Time Being
17 hrs. 14 min.
Description
Ruth Ozeki is an American of Japanese descent, a specialist in classical Japanese literature, a florist, deeply interested in theatre and cinema. In 2010 she was ordained as a Buddhist priest. Ozeki carries out active public work on university campuses and lives between Brooklyn and Cortes Island in British Columbia, where she writes, knits socks, and raises ducks with her husband Oliver.
Ruth, a writer living on an isolated Canadian island, discovers in a “Hello Kitty” lunchbox that was carried ashore from the ocean after the devastating tsunami of 2011: an entire collection of astonishing items—including the diary of sixteen-year-old Naoko from Tokyo. For a girl tired of being bullied by classmates and of family troubles, these notes—where she tries to tell about her great-grandmother, a Buddhist nun who lived for more than a hundred years—are the only comfort, and she can’t even imagine how deeply they will affect the lives of people who don’t even know her. At the other end of the Pacific, as Ruth grows increasingly immersed in the past, in the tragedy of this Japanese schoolgirl and in her fate, she begins to see her own present and future in a new light.
“My Fish Will Live” is a novel full of subtle irony and deep understanding of relationships between author, listener, and characters; between reality and fantasy; quantum physics; history and myth. It is an engrossing, enchanting story about humaneness and the search for home.
Ruth, a writer living on an isolated Canadian island, discovers in a “Hello Kitty” lunchbox that was carried ashore from the ocean after the devastating tsunami of 2011: an entire collection of astonishing items—including the diary of sixteen-year-old Naoko from Tokyo. For a girl tired of being bullied by classmates and of family troubles, these notes—where she tries to tell about her great-grandmother, a Buddhist nun who lived for more than a hundred years—are the only comfort, and she can’t even imagine how deeply they will affect the lives of people who don’t even know her. At the other end of the Pacific, as Ruth grows increasingly immersed in the past, in the tragedy of this Japanese schoolgirl and in her fate, she begins to see her own present and future in a new light.
“My Fish Will Live” is a novel full of subtle irony and deep understanding of relationships between author, listener, and characters; between reality and fantasy; quantum physics; history and myth. It is an engrossing, enchanting story about humaneness and the search for home.
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