Tale for the time being
Publication details: Canongate Books, 2013. Edunburgh:Description: 455p.; pbk; 19cmISBN:- 9781786893901
- 813.54 OZE
Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Books | IIT Gandhinagar | General | 813.54 OZE (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 031192 |
Amid the garish neon glare of a district of Tokyo known as Akiba Electric Town, sixteen-year-old Naoko Yasutani pours out her thoughts into a diary. She is drinking coffee in a café where the waitresses dress like French maids and a greasy-looking patron gazes at her with dubious intent. The setting is hardly ordinary, but Nao, as she is called, is not an ordinary girl. Humbled by poverty since her father lost his high-income tech job in Silicon Valley and had to move the family back to Japan, Nao has been bullied mercilessly in school. Seemingly unmanned by his professional failure, her father, Haruki, has attempted suicide. Nao herself regards her diary as a protracted suicide note—but one she will not finish until she has committed to its pages the life story of her 104-year-old great-grandmother, a Buddhist nun named Jiko.
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