The Resource The book of form and emptiness, Ruth Ozeki
The book of form and emptiness, Ruth Ozeki
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The item The book of form and emptiness, Ruth Ozeki represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Bowdoin College Library.
This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch.
- Summary
- "A brilliantly inventive new novel about loss, growing up, and our relationship with things, by the Booker Prize-finalist author of A Tale for the Time Being. After the tragic death his beloved musician father, fourteen-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, Annabelle, develops a hoarding problem, the voices grow more clamorous. At first, Benny tries to ignore them, but soon the voices follow him outside the house, onto the street and at school, driving him at last to seek refuge in the silence of a large public library, where objects are well-behaved and know to speak in whispers. There, Benny discovers a strange new world, where "things happen." He falls in love with a mesmerizing street artist with a smug pet ferret, who uses the library as her performance space. He meets a homeless philosopher-poet, who encourages him to ask important questions and find his own voice amongst the many. And he meets his very own Book-a talking thing-who narrates Benny's life and teaches him to listen to the things that truly matter. With its blend of sympathetic characters, riveting plot, and vibrant engagement with everything from jazz, to climate change, to our attachment to material possessions, The Book of Form and Emptiness is classic Ruth Ozeki-bold, wise, poignant, playful, humane and heartbreaking"--
- Language
- eng
- Label
- The book of form and emptiness
- Title
- The book of form and emptiness
- Statement of responsibility
- Ruth Ozeki
- Subject
-
- Bildungsromans
- Books
- Books -- Fiction
- Coming of age
- Compulsive hoarding
- Compulsive hoarding -- Fiction
- FICTION / Asian American
- FICTION / Coming of Age
- FICTION / Magical Realism
- Fathers -- Death
- Fathers -- Death -- Fiction
- Asian Americans
- Magic realist fiction
- Magic realist fiction
- Novels
- Public libraries
- Public libraries -- Fiction
- Teenage boys
- Teenage boys -- Fiction
- Fiction
- Asian Americans -- Fiction
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "A brilliantly inventive new novel about loss, growing up, and our relationship with things, by the Booker Prize-finalist author of A Tale for the Time Being. After the tragic death his beloved musician father, fourteen-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, Annabelle, develops a hoarding problem, the voices grow more clamorous. At first, Benny tries to ignore them, but soon the voices follow him outside the house, onto the street and at school, driving him at last to seek refuge in the silence of a large public library, where objects are well-behaved and know to speak in whispers. There, Benny discovers a strange new world, where "things happen." He falls in love with a mesmerizing street artist with a smug pet ferret, who uses the library as her performance space. He meets a homeless philosopher-poet, who encourages him to ask important questions and find his own voice amongst the many. And he meets his very own Book-a talking thing-who narrates Benny's life and teaches him to listen to the things that truly matter. With its blend of sympathetic characters, riveting plot, and vibrant engagement with everything from jazz, to climate change, to our attachment to material possessions, The Book of Form and Emptiness is classic Ruth Ozeki-bold, wise, poignant, playful, humane and heartbreaking"--
- Assigning source
- Provided by publisher
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1956-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Ozeki, Ruth
- Index
- no index present
- Literary form
- novels
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
-
- Teenage boys
- Fathers
- Books
- Public libraries
- Compulsive hoarding
- Asian Americans
- FICTION / Asian American
- FICTION / Coming of Age
- FICTION / Magical Realism
- Asian Americans
- Books
- Coming of age
- Compulsive hoarding
- Fathers
- Public libraries
- Teenage boys
- Label
- The book of form and emptiness, Ruth Ozeki
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 1240264435
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Extent
- 548 pages
- Isbn
- 9780399563645
- Lccn
- 2021008787
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other control number
- 40030743680
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1240264435
- Label
- The book of form and emptiness, Ruth Ozeki
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 1240264435
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Extent
- 548 pages
- Isbn
- 9780399563645
- Lccn
- 2021008787
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other control number
- 40030743680
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1240264435
Subject
- Bildungsromans
- Books
- Books -- Fiction
- Coming of age
- Compulsive hoarding
- Compulsive hoarding -- Fiction
- FICTION / Asian American
- FICTION / Coming of Age
- FICTION / Magical Realism
- Fathers -- Death
- Fathers -- Death -- Fiction
- Asian Americans
- Magic realist fiction
- Magic realist fiction
- Novels
- Public libraries
- Public libraries -- Fiction
- Teenage boys
- Teenage boys -- Fiction
- Fiction
- Asian Americans -- Fiction
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