“What moves me most of all is the way Ozeki explores intimate human relationships, and how people manage to love each other in the midst of their suffering.”
Fall 2013
Tricycle
The Eternal Now
Susan Moon
Sydney Morning Herald: Poetic approach to an idiosyncratic oeuvre →
“Both works stir in a dazzling array of ingredients with the same mix of playfulness, compassion and acid observation.”
August 18, 2013
The Sydney Morning Herald
Poetic approach to an idiosyncratic oeuvre
John Bailey
Book Talk: The Literary Summer Heats Up →
July 31, 2013
Scottish Book Trust
Book Talk: The Literary Summer Heats Up
Ryan Van Winkle
Japan Times: A diary washed ashore opens up a world of multiple realities →
“A good read transcends into the eternal, melding the real now with a timeless present. Ruth Ozeki’s “A Tale for the Time Being” is all that and more: a quietly amazing achievement, a careful construct bridging quantum physics and the role of the reader/observer, a Zen eternity of multiple realities within a single I-novel/not a novel.”
July 14, 2013
The Japan Times
A diary washed ashore opens up a world of multiple realities
Kris Kosaka
Guardian Books podcast: A world in transit →
“Michelle de Kretser and Ruth Ozeki talk about novels which span the globe, while Jo Glanville and Evie Wyld discuss a literary world in motion”
June 28, 2013
The Guardian
Guardian Books podcast: A world in transit
Richard Lea