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The Book of Form and Emptiness

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WINNER OF THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2022

One year after the death of his beloved musician father, thirteen-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 develops a hoarding problem, the voices grow more clamorous.

At first Benny tries to ignore them, but ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2021
Publisher
Canongate Books
Condition
New
Number of Pages
560
Place of Publication
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781838855246
SKU
9781838855246
Shipping Time
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Ref
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About Ruth Ozeki
Ruth Ozeki is a novelist, filmmaker and Zen Buddhist priest. She is the author of The Book of Form and Emptiness, which won the Women's Prize for Fiction in 2022, My Year of Meats, All Over Creation and A Tale for the Time Being, which was shortlisted for the 2013 Man Booker Prize and translated into 28 languages. Ozeki has ... Read more

Reviews for The Book of Form and Emptiness
This compassionate novel of life, love and loss glows in the dark. Its strange, beautiful pages turn themselves. If you've lost your way with fiction over the last year or two, let The Book of Form and Emptiness light your way home
DAVID MITCHELL The Book of Form and Emptiness is a big, polyphonic, often comic, magical-realist collage of ... Read more

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