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Lädt ... A Tale for the Time Being: A Novel (2013. Auflage)von Ruth Ozeki (Autor)
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Family Values Review Old Jiko style: Book is good. Book is bad. Same thing. Overall, I really enjoyed this book. I loved the writing style and the mystery between Nao, Ruth and the Hello Kitty lunchbox. I adored Old Jiko and her words of wisdom. I was mostly interested in the stores of Haruki #1 and Haruki #2 It lost me a little bit towards the end with the quantum physics stuff and the receding ending to the story but I suppose the whole point was to make you consider the possibility of different worlds. I'm not sure that I believe! Many readers may struggle with the focus on suicide, bullying and the dark side of Nao's life, but for me those sections helped provide necessary depth to the overall story. Those sections also made this a slow read for me....at times I had to force myself to go back because the story was sad and difficult for me even though I wanted to know what happened to our characters. Overall I think it is well worth reading. Loved this message-in-a-bottle book! Told in two voices across a span of years, hinting that time is nonlinear and characters live in the moment when they are read. The author is a Zen Buddhist priest addressing the concepts of time, the life-giving power of words, quantum mechanics, multiple universes, and life as seen thru the eyes of a Japanese teen. A lovely, difficult book that will stay with me for a long time. A Tale for the Time Being is a "You must change your life" kind of book. It's about time, death, consciousness, causality, and making meaning. It's also quirky and metafictional, but is nevertheless an accessible read, with likable characters and fairly linear storytelling. Nao is a charming but depressed Japanese teenager dealing with brutal bullies, a suicidal father, and the aftershocks of family trauma from the Second World War. Nao keeps a diary that mysteriously ends up in the hands of Ruth, a fictionalized version of the author, who tries to track down Nao and reconstruct her life and fate. The novel dips its toe into the realms of speculative and surrealist fiction as it explores this relationship between reader and diarist. A Tale for the Time Being feels like a catalog of strategies for responding to the impermanence and suffering of life: from suicide to making art to mindless Internet surfing to planting trees to the meditation practice of Nao's larger-than-life Buddhist nun great-grandmother. It's a book that goes deep, and at times it is an uncomfortable read. The forthright depictions of bullying, suicide, war, natural disaster, and sex work are never gratuitous, but they are graphic. That said, A Tale for the Time Being is absolutely a novel about hope. After Nao's spiral into darkness, subsequent moments of joy and rebirth feel earned. If I didn't give this book five stars, it's only because it felt a little too linear, despite the meta, timey-wimey storytelling conceit. I wanted just a bit more ambiguity and weirdness, especially near the end. Overall an excellent, profound read, and one that will hopefully inspire me to spend some time on my zafu this winter (I have a zafu and zabuton lovingly made by hippies in the Blue Ridge Mountains, so I truly have no excuse). Have you ever had a book that seems to be calling to you from your nightstand or your book shelf? It sounds silly, but that is what this book has been doing to me. I would notice it there sometimes, and I would pick it up and look at it, and even open the pages, but I would put it back because I didn't think the time was right, or that I was in the right frame of mind to read it. Well I finally picked it up again, and this time decided to read it. It would turn out to be one of the last books that I would read this year, but it would be the best. I have read some fabulous books this year, so I don't say this lightly. Ruth Ozeki seemed to have written this book for me at this my time of life. It is a book that actually made me examine and reevaluate my life. It made me appreciate and be thankful for the life that i have had. It made me think about why things in the world have happened the way they have. When a barnacle-covered "Hello-Kitty" lunchbox washes up on shore on a remote island just off the coast of British Columbia, it changes Ruth's life. Ruth and her husband Oliver are living a survivalist lifestyle. Ruth is an author and Oliver a very talented botanist. When Ruth finds a diary in the lunchbox written in English by a young Japanese girl named Nao Yasutani, she does not realize how reading this diary will forever change her life, and change her thoughts about what has been and is still happening in the world. Reading Nao's story is heartbreaking, but it is also totally engaging. Ozeki does not spare her readers with coloured-over descriptions of horrific happenings. The descriptions are graphic and totally gripping, and they pull the reader in, kicking and screaming, to her fictional world. The book restored my faith in human nature, and made me realize that no matter how bad things may appear, faith, love, family and human compassion, can make things better, and change our beliefs and our opinions, and maybe even change the world a little too. This is a lot for one novel to accomplish, but this one does all of this, as well as tell a great story about a brave 16-year old Japanese girl. and a 30 something Canadian writer who meet through the pages of a diary.
In clever and deeply affecting ways, Ruth Ozeki’s luminous new novel explores notions of duality, causation, honour, and time. ... Though [the character] Ruth is clearly intended as a semi-autobiographical portrait of the author, it’s the character of Nao, in all her angsty adolescent dismissiveness, that Ozeki truly pulls off (here’s an author who should be writing YA novels). A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki is expansive, provocative and sometimes rather confusing. But that’s okay. It’s supposed to be....It can leave you scratching your head – for starters, the main character of the novel seems to be Ruth Ozeki herself, or at least, a fairly obvious facsimile of her – but ultimately, the effect of such riddles is charming, earnest and very much a departure from your typical literary novel....Like them, Ozeki manages to turn existential conundrums into a playful, joyful and pleasantly mind-bending dialogue between reader and writer. Here’s hoping that this book will find its way to an audience just as excited to participate in it. "A Tale for the Time Being"... is an exquisite novel: funny, tragic, hard-edged and ethereal at once. [It's] heady stuff, but it hangs together for a couple of reasons — the exuberance of Ozeki's writing, the engaging nature of her characters and, not least, her scrupulous insistence that it doesn't have to hang together, that even as she ties up loose ends, others come unbound. Seen from space, or from the vantage point of those conversant with Zen principles, A Tale for the Time Being is probably a deep and illuminating piece of work, with thoughtful things to say about the slipperiness of time. But for those positioned lower in the planet's stratosphere, Ozeki's novel often feels more like the great Pacific gyre it frequently evokes: a vast, churning basin of mental flotsam in which Schrödinger's cat, quantum mechanics, Japanese funeral rituals, crow species, fetish cafes, the anatomy of barnacles, 163 footnotes and six appendices all jostle for attention. It's an impressive amount of stuff. One version of you might be intrigued. Another might pray it doesn't land on your shore. If you’re a fan of the metaphysician Martin Heidegger, or the physicist Erwin Schrödinger, you will be pleased at the novel’s tip of the hat to their abstruse notions of time and sub-atomic space. There’s even an appendix to the novel explaining the “thought experiment” known to the world as “Schrödinger’s cat...But the novel suffers from a tinge of self satisfaction. It pits sensitive souls like the involuntary kamikaze pilot who loves French literature against brutal army officers, and it’s not a fair fight. The fight becomes Us — readers who derive spiritual sustenance from Marcel Proust, and appreciate “the value of kindness, of education, of independent thinking and liberal ideals” — versus Them, who are sheer brutes. Gehört zu VerlagsreihenHat als Erläuterung für Schüler oder StudentenAuszeichnungenPrestigeträchtige AuswahlenBemerkenswerte Listen
Die kanadische Autorin Ruth findet am Strand ein gut verpacktes Tagebuch. Das Mädchen Nao hat ihre Bekenntnisse, zusammen mit seltsamen Gegenständen, in Japan auf den Weg gebracht. Die Rückkehr Naos und ihrer Familie aus den USA war schwierig. Ihr Vater ist ohne Job und selbstmordgefährdet. Sie ist in ihrer Schule einem brutalen Mobbing ausgesetzt. Die Sommerferien kann sie bei ihrer Urgrossmutter in einem buddhistischen Tempel verbringen, wo sie von ihr eine ruhige Gelassenheit lernt, die ihr hilft. Nao werden auch die Briefe ihres Uronkels Haruki anvertraut, der im Krieg als Kamikazepilot starb. Ruth ist von dieser Lebensgeschichte und ihrer philosophischen Weisheit so fasziniert, dass sie ihre schriftstellerische Arbeit vernachlässigt und auch ihren Mann Oliver in ihre Suche nach Nao miteinbezieht. Der Autorin (Mutter aus Japan) ist mit der Verschränkung der beiden Frauenschicksale ein wunderbares Buch gelungen, das sicher auch autobiografische Züge trägt. Japanische Begriffe werden in Fussnoten entschlüsselt und Anhänge vertiefen den Stoff. Ein aussergewöhnlicher Titel für ausgebaute Romanbestände Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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