'Funny, heartbreaking, moving and profound. I just finished it, and loved it' - Elizabeth Gilbert 'A beautifully interwoven novel about magic and loss and the incomprehensible threads that connect our lives. And interesting: the contrast of cultures is especially well done' - Philip Pullman

'Ingenious and touching, A Tale for the Time Being is also highly readable. Nao’s future reader, Ruth, has left Manhattan to live with her husband on the aptly named Desolation Sound in a community of refugees from the modern world. She is a deeply intelligent and humane writer who offers her insights with a grace that beguiles. Ruth Ozeki beautifully renders not only the devastation of the collision between man and the natural world, but also the often miraculous results of it. ' A Tale for the Time Being is a timeless story. In short, an absolute treat' - Lucy Atkins, Sunday Times Her novel is saturated with love, ideas and compassion.

Ozeki explores what it means to be human in this moment, right now (Nao). In precise and luminous prose, Ozeki captures both the sweep and detail of our shared humanity, moving seamlessly between Nao's story and our own' - Madeline Miller Ozeki has said that A Tale for the Time Being demonstrates how characters call to their writers, as Nao does to the character Ruth. With star-studded reviews from publications like the New York Times and. 'This is one of the most deeply moving and thought-provoking novels I have read in a long time. Personally, I think it is very clear why A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki did not win the Booker Prize.

Ruth author a tale for the time being