A Tale for the Time Being

A Tale for the Time Being
AuthorRuth Ozeki
LanguageEnglish
PublisherViking
Publication date
March 12, 2013
Publication placeUSA
Pages432pp
ISBN978-0-670-02663-0
OCLC841015817
813.54
LC Class2012-39878

A Tale for the Time Being is a metafictional novel by Ruth Ozeki narrated by two characters, a sixteen-year-old Japanese American girl living in Tokyo who keeps a diary, and a Japanese American writer living on an island off the coast of British Columbia who finds the diary of the young woman washed ashore some time after the 2011 tsunami that devastated Japan.[1]

  1. ^ "Penguin Reading Guide". Penguin. Retrieved 2013-11-20.