A Tale for the Time Being
About this book
In Tokyo, sixteen-year-old Nao has decided there's only one escape from her aching loneliness and her classmates' bullying. But before she ends it all, she plans to document the life of her great-grandmother, a Buddhist nun who's lived more than a century. A diary is Nao's only solace. Across the Pacific a novelist living on a remote island discovers artifacts washed ashore in a Hello Kitty lunchbox and is pulled into Nao's drama and her unknown fate. (Bestseller)
Subjects
- adolescentes
- amerikanisches englisch
- authors, fiction
- british columbia, fiction
- buddhist nuns
- bullying in schools
- coasts
- diaries
- écrivaines
- fiction
- fictional work
- fiction, fantasy, contemporary
- fiction / literary
- fiction, psychological
- general
- girls
- kamikaze pilots
- large type books
- literary
- new york times bestseller
- new york times reviewed
- nonnes bouddhistes
- nuns, fiction
- nyt:trade-fiction-paperback=2014-01-19
- roman
- romans, nouvelles
- skönlitteratur
- suicidal behavior
- teenage girls
- teenagers
- tokyo (japan), fiction
- tsunamis
- women authors
- women novelists
- young women, fiction
- zen buddhism