![]() There are notes translating Japanese words and phrases and appendixes clarifying complex matters such as physics and Zen philosophy. Given its extent in time and space, the novel deals with a range of disparate topics: environmentalism, land art, Zen meditation, ideas of time in Buddhism and literature, the possibility to create moral buffers in human/computer interface design, and even quantum mechanics (with possible implications for a novelist). It also connects two sides of the Pacific Ocean – Japan and Canada – through the stories of two Japanese-American women, a middle-aged novelist in a creative crisis and a teenager in trouble but very prolific in writing her diary. ![]() ![]() It spans about seven decades, from the present time to War World II in the Pacific, from the burst of the dot-com bubble to September 11th, and finally to the aftermath of the earthquake and tsunami in Japan in March 2013. ![]() A Tale for the Time Being(Viking, 2013) by Ruth Ozeki is a 400 pages strong novel. ![]()
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