A tale for the time being

432 pages

English language

Published Aug. 2, 2013

ISBN:
978-0-670-02663-0
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A Tale for the Time Being is a metafictional novel by Ruth Ozeki narrated by two characters, a sixteen-year-old Japanese American girl living in Tokyo who keeps a diary, and a Japanese American writer living on an island off the coast of British Columbia who finds the diary of the young woman washed ashore some time after the 2011 tsunami that devastated Japan.

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Menciones directas:
Shōbōgenzō (ca. 1253) de Dōgen.
En busca del tiempo perdido (ca. 1927) de Marcel Proust.
Grandes esperanzas (1861) de Charles Dickens.
Los viajes de Gulliver (1726) de Jonathan Swift.
Genji Monogatari (1008) de Murasaki Shikibu.
El libro de la almohada (1002) de Sei Shōnagon.
Reflections on the Way to the Gallows (1911) de Sugako Kanno.
Canción Kagome kagome (?), anónimo (canción infantil tradicional japonesa).
Prajñāpāramitā Sūtra (ca. s. IV), anónimo.
The Rhetoric of Confession: Shishōsetsu in Early Twentieth-Century Japanese Fiction (1988) de Edward Fowler.
Fukushima Nuclear Accident Update Log (2011) del Organismo Internacional de Energía Atómica.
Las flores del mal (1857) de Charles Baudelaire.
Words Like the Wind (1939) de Fumiko Enchi.
Midaregami (1901) de Akiko Yosano.
Romeo y Julieta (1597) de William Shakespeare.
Certaine Experiments Concerning Fish and Fruite (s. XVI) de John Taverner.
El ser y el tiempo (1927) de Martin Heidegger.
Sozorogoto (1911) de …