Ruth Ozeki es una novelista cuyo trabajo profundiza en las intrincadas conexiones entre las personas y el mundo que las rodea. Su escritura a menudo explora temas de identidad, interconexión y el impacto de las acciones humanas en el medio ambiente. A través de sus narrativas meticulosamente elaboradas, Ozeki invita a los lectores a reflexionar sobre su propio lugar dentro de un paisaje en constante cambio. Su voz distintiva mezcla fluidamente la introspección con agudas críticas sociales.
Jane Takagi-Little produces a Japanese television show on all-American meat cooking. Akiko Ueno learns more than just recipes from Jane's programmes. In one parallel year, the lives of two women at opposite ends of the earth are brought together in a novel of meat, TV and personal crisis.
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 its reader. Ruth lives with her husband on the Pacific coast of Canada. A few months after the 2010 tsunami she finds a Hello Kitty lunchbox washed up on the shore. It contains a diary.
A revelatory short memoir from the author and Zen Buddhist priest Ruth Ozeki about how her face has shaped and been shaped by her life
With a lifetime of careful nurturing of potatoes and seeds behind them, Lloyd Fuller and his Japanese wife, Momoko, have begun to feel the ravages of time. Their only daughter, Yumi, left home twenty-five years ago, and now they must attempt to consider the future of their precious yet fragile livelihood. Meanwhile a troupe of young revolutionaries are scouring the land in their faithful Winnebego, their eccentric, volatile lives focused on restoring farming practice to its basic beginnings and curbing genetic modification once and for all. As the 'Seeds of Resistance' come crashing into Fullers Farms so too does Yumi return to the fold, and the lives of Lloyd and Momoko are certain never to be the same again.
Some of the world's favourite authors each contribute a chapter in the life of the mysterious George 'Gee' Keane, photographer, soldier, adventurer and enigma. Under different pens, a startling picture emerges of a man who magically connects the lives and times of young people around the world . . .
Find Your Own Way to Inner Peace With the Wisdom of Japan
A dazzling, heartbreaking page-turner destined for breakout status: a novel that gives voice to the displaced.
Nekoliko mjeseci nakon razornog cunamija u Japanu 2011., Ruth na obali otoka u Britanskoj Kolumbiji pronalazi naplavljenu vrećicu. Unutra je starinski ručni sat, izblijedjela pisma i primjerak romana "U potrazi za izgubljenim vremenom". No umjesto Proustovih riječi, korice skrivaju dnevnik šesnaestogodišnje Sade Yasutani koja, suočena s obiteljskim i osobnim slomom, zaključuje da njezin život nema smisla. No prije konačnog kraja, odlučuje dokumentirati život svoje 104-godišnje prabake budističke svećenice. Bilježi svoje misli u nadi da će naći čitatelja i prijatelja, nekoga tko će je napokon poslušati i razumjeti. Već nakon prve rečenice: “Zovem se Sada i ja sam vremensko biće”, Ruth zakoračuje na putovanje koje ne samo da postupno otkriva tko je Sada, je li stvarna i što joj se dogodilo, nego istodobno tka i para tapiseriju Ruthina postojanja. "Priča za vremensko biće" prvi je hrvatski prijevod Ruth Ozeki čija su djela dosad prevedena u više od 30 zemalja svijeta. Roman je dobio i nagrade Kitchies, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, a ušao je i među finaliste National Book Critics Circle Award i The Man Booker Prize, potvrdivši mišljenje kritičara kako se radi o jednom o najzanimljivijih romana objavljenih zadnjih godina.
