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. 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.
WINNER OF THE WOMEN’S PRIZE FOR FICTION
NATIONAL BESTSELLER
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
About Author:
Ruth Ozeki is a novelist, filmmaker, and Zen Buddhist priest. She is the award-winning author of three novels, My Year of Meats, All Over Creation, and A Tale for the Time Being, which was a finalist for the 2013 Booker Prize. Her nonfiction work includes a memoir, The Face: A Time Code, and a documentary film, Halving the Bones. She is affiliated with the Everyday Zen Foundation and teaches creative writing at Smith College, where she is the Grace Jarcho Ross 1933 Professor of Humanities. She lives in British Columbia and western Massachusetts.
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داستانی از جهان حیرت انگیز انسانی که صدای اشیا را می شنود و می تواند با آن ها سخن بگوید و راوی با هنرمندی بخش هایی از داستان را حتی از زبان همان اشیا بیان می کند؛ داستانی که جهان اسکیزوفرنی و اختلال های ذهنی و روانی و جهان ذن و مراقبه را در هم می آمیزد؛ همچون آمیختگی ذهن نویسنده اش، روث اوزکی، که از طرفی آمریکایی است و از طرفی ژاپنی. کتاب فرم و خلأ رازآمیزی داستان های ژاپنی و گیرایی داستان های آمریکایی را همزمان دارد.
درباره نویسنده:
روث اوزکی نویسنده، فیلمساز و کشیش ذن بودایی آمریکایی-ژاپنی است. کتابها و فیلمهای او، از جمله رمانهای «سال گوشتهای من»، «سرتاسر خلقت» و «داستانی برای زمان»، به دنبال ادغام روایت شخصی و مسائل اجتماعی هستند و به موضوعات مرتبط با علم، فناوری، سیاستهای محیطی، نژاد، مذهب میپردازند