L.A. Times - Asia: Ruth Ozeki's 'A Tale for the Time Being' is a diary, a puzzle, a novel

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Ruth Ozeki's 'A Tale for the Time Being' is a diary, a puzzle, a novel Mar 21st 2013, 21:00 The author's novel takes a Zen approach, weaving together a Japanese girl's diary and the story of a novelist who finds it. Ruth Ozeki opens her third novel, "A Tale for the Time Being," with a small deception — or, more accurately, a sleight of hand. Forgoing context or explanation, she plunges us into the diary of a 16-year-old Japanese girl named Nao. The language is excitable, breathless even: "[I]f you decide to read on," Nao exclaims, "then guess what? You're my kind of time being and together we'll make magic!" Media files: 16x9

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