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- 432 páginas
- 16 horas de lectura
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Hi! My name is Nao, and I am a time being. Do you know what a time being is? Well, if you give me a moment, I will tell you.On a remote island in the Pacific Northwest, a Hello Kitty lunchbox washes up on the beach. Tucked inside is the diary of a sixteen-year-old Japanese girl named Nao Yasutani. Ruth--a writer who finds the lunchbox--suspects that it is debris from Japan's 2011 tsunami. Once she beings to read the diary, Ruth quickly finds herself drawn into the mystery of Nao's fate. Meanwhile in Tokyo, Nao, uprooted from her home in the U.S., bullied at school, and watching her parents spiral deeper into disaster, has decided to end her life. But first, she wants to recount the story of her great-grandmother, a 104-year-old Zen Buddhist nun, in the pages of her secret diary...
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A Tale for the Time Being, Ruth Ozeki
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- Publicado en
- 2013
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- Idioma
- Inglés
- Autores
- Ruth Ozeki
- Editorial
- Penguin Group USA
- Publicado en
- 2013
- Formato
- Tapa blanda
- Páginas
- 432
- ISBN10
- 0143124870
- ISBN13
- 9780143124870
- Serie
- Etiquetas
- Ficción, Esoterismo y religión, Fantasía, Novelas históricas, Temas religiosos, Temática filosófica, Religión, Familia, Mujeres, Ficción contemporánea, Amistad, EE.UU., Esoterismo, Literatura americana, Escuela, Muerte, Japón, Budismo, Salud mental, Matrimonio, Chicas, Jóvenes, Comunicación, Pérdida, Diarios, Luto, Realismo mágico, Novelas psicológicas, Mares y océanos, Soledad, Suicidio, Tratamiento, Terapia, Psiquiatría, Acoso escolar, Trauma, Escritoras, Caos, Bibliotecas, Alucinaciones
- Primera publicación
- 2013
- Título original
- A Tale for the Time Being
- Calificación
- 4 de 5
- Descripción
- Hi! My name is Nao, and I am a time being. Do you know what a time being is? Well, if you give me a moment, I will tell you.On a remote island in the Pacific Northwest, a Hello Kitty lunchbox washes up on the beach. Tucked inside is the diary of a sixteen-year-old Japanese girl named Nao Yasutani. Ruth--a writer who finds the lunchbox--suspects that it is debris from Japan's 2011 tsunami. Once she beings to read the diary, Ruth quickly finds herself drawn into the mystery of Nao's fate. Meanwhile in Tokyo, Nao, uprooted from her home in the U.S., bullied at school, and watching her parents spiral deeper into disaster, has decided to end her life. But first, she wants to recount the story of her great-grandmother, a 104-year-old Zen Buddhist nun, in the pages of her secret diary...