The Book of Form and Emptiness: Winner of the Women's Prize for Fiction 2022 - Couverture souple

Ozeki, Ruth

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1838855270 ISBN 13 : 9781838855277

Editeur : Canongate Books, 2022

Synopsis

WINNER OF THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2022

When a book and a reader are meant for each other, both of them know it . . .

After the tragic death of his father, fourteen-year-old Benny Oh begins to hear voices. The voices belong to the things in his house and sound variously pleasant, angry or sad. Then his mother develops a hoarding problem, and the voices grow more clamorous. So Benny seeks refuge in the silence of a large public library. There he meets a mesmerising street artist with a smug pet ferret; a homeless philosopher-poet; and his very own Book, who narrates Benny's life and teaches him to listen to the things that truly matter.

Blending unforgettable characters with jazz, climate change and our attachment to material possessions, this is classic Ruth Ozeki - bold, humane and heartbreaking.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Ruth Ozeki is a novelist, filmmaker and Zen Buddhist priest. She is the author of four novels including The Book of Form and Emptiness, which won the Women's Prize for Fiction, and A Tale for the Time Being, which was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and translated into 28 languages. Her nonfiction work includes the short memoir, Timecode of a Face, and the documentary film Halving the Bones. She is affiliated with the Everyday Zen Foundation and lives in Western Massachusetts, where she taught creative writing at Smith College and is the Grace Jarcho Ross 1933 Professor Emerita of Humanities.

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À propos de la quatrième de couverture

Winner of the Women's Prize, this is a brilliantly inventive novel about loss, growing up and our relationship with things

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Canongate Books
• Date d'édition: 2022
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1838855270
• ISBN 13: 9781838855277
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 560
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Canongate Books (Edinburgh); info@canongate.co.uk; ; 14 High Street; Edinburgh; EH1 1TE; Royaume-Uni
• Personne responsable: BGC Sustainability & Compliance; gpsr@baldwinglobalconsulting.com; ; Wells 75-76; London; W1T 3QT; Royaume-Uni