Ruth Ozeki

Ruth Ozeki is a Japanese-American novelist, filmmaker and Zen Buddhist priest. Her novel A Tale for the Time Being was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Available as an audiobook and book, it tells the intertwined stories of a Japanese teenager and a writer on a remote Canadian island, exploring time, memory and interconnection. Ozeki's fiction is philosophical, deeply humane and beautifully crafted, rewarding readers and listeners with its depth and warmth.