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The Book of Form and Emptiness

Ruth Ozeki

From Shelf: Official Indie Top 12 Fiction Bestsellers (Week 25, 2022)

Winner of the Women's Prize, this is a brilliantly inventive novel about loss, growing up and our relationship with things

WINNER OF THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2022When a book and a reader are meant for each other, both of them know it . . .After the tragic death of his father, fourteen-year-old Benny Oh begins to hear voices. The voices belong to the things in his house and sound variously pleasant, angry or sad. Then his mother develops a hoarding problem, and the voices grow more clamorous. So Benny seeks refuge in the silence of a large public library. There he meets a mesmerising street artist with a smug pet ferret; a homeless philosopher-poet; and his very own Book, who narrates Benny's life and teaches him to listen to the things that truly matter. Blending unforgettable characters with jazz, climate change and our attachment to material possessions, this is classic Ruth Ozeki - bold, humane and heartbreaking.

Format:
Paperback / softback
Pages:
560
Publisher:
Canongate Books
ISBN:
9781838855277
Published Date:
24/3/2022
Dimensions:
198mm x 129mm x 33mm
Weight:
371g
Category:
Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

RRP: £9.99

Format: Paperback / softback

ISBN: 9781838855277


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