OZEKI RUTH

(P/B) THE BOOK OF FORM AND EMPTINESS
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...
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Το βιβλίο της μορφής και του κενού
Όταν ένα βιβλίο και ένας αναγνώστης είναι πλασμένοι ο ένας για τον άλλο, το γνωρίζουν και οι δύο... Μετά τον τραγικό θάνατο του πατέρα του, ο δεκατριάχρονος Μπένι Ο αρχίζει να ακούει φωνές. Οι φωνές αυτές ανήκουν στα αντικείμενα του σπιτιού του και ακούγονται πότε ευχάριστες, πότε θυμωμένες και πότε θλιμμένες. Όταν όμως η μητέρα του αρχίζει να συσσωρεύει αντικείμενα σε παθολογικό βαθμό, οι φωνές γίνονται όλο και πιο έντονες. Έτσι ο Μπένι αναζητά καταφύγιο στην ησυχία μιας μεγάλης δημόσιας βιβλιοθήκης. Εκεί συναντά μια σαγηνευτική καλλιτέχ...
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(P/B) A TALE FOR THE TIME BEING
Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award, this is a timeless and compassionate novel about what it means to be human In the wake of the 2011 tsunami, Ruth discovers a Hello Kitty lunchbox washed up on the shore of her beach home in British Columbia. Within it lies a diary that expresses the hopes, heartbreak and dreams of a young girl desperate for someone to understand her. Each turn of the page pulls Ruth deeper into the mystery of Nao's life, and forever changes her in a way neither could foresee. ...
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(P/B) THE BOOK OF FORM AND EMPTINESS
One year after the death of his beloved musician father, thirteen-year-old Benny Oh begins to hear voices. The voices belong to the things in his house - a sneaker, a broken Christmas ornament, a piece of wilted lettuce. Although Benny doesn't understand what these things are saying, he can sense their emotional tone; some are pleasant, a gentle hum or coo, but others are snide, angry and full of pain. When his mother develops a hoarding problem, the voices grow more clamorous. At first Benny tries to ignore them, but soon the voices follo...
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(P/B) MY YEAR OF MEATS
In a single eye-opening year, two women, worlds apart, experience parallel awakenings. In New York, Jane Takagi-Little has landed a job producing Japanese docu-soap My American Wife! But as she researches the consumption of meat in the American home, she begins to realize that her ruthless search for a story is deeply compromising her morals. Meanwhile, in Tokyo, housewife Akiko Ueno diligently prepares the recipes from Jane's programme. Struggling to please her husband, she increasingly doubts her commitment to the life she has fallen int...
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ΜΙΑ ΙΣΤΟΡΙΑ ΓΙΑ ΤΟ ΠΑΡΟΝ
Η Νάο είναι μια έφηβη από την Ιαπωνία που αντιμετωπίζει τη βία των συμμαθητών της και φλερτάρει με την ιδέα της αυτοκτονίας, μια διέξοδο που είχε ακολουθήσει (ανεπιτυχώς) και ο πατέρας της στο παρελθόν. Μοναδικό στήριγμα και πρότυπό της είναι η προγιαγιά της -η οποία μετά από μια πολυτάραχη ζωή έχει αποσυρθεί σ' ένα βουδιστικό μοναστήρι- και μοναδική της παρηγοριά είναι ένα ημερολόγιο στο οποίο καταγράφει την καθημερινότητα και τις σκέψεις της. Αυτό το ημερολόγιο, παρασυρμένο από τα κύματα του τσουνάμι, θα διασχίσει τον Ειρηνικό... Η Ρουθ ...
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(P/B) ALL OVER CREATION
Yumi Fuller hasn't set foot in her parents' farm in Idaho since she ran away when she was fifteen. Now, twenty-five years later, the prodigal daughter - and now a struggling single mother of three - is returning home, desperate to win back the love of her ailing father and to confront her best friend and her conflicted past. Still spirited and rebellious, she finds a world - and her parents - changed beyond recognition. In the weeks and months to come, Yumi breathes life back into her parents' farm. And with the arrival of a group of youn...
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