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Narrator

Ruth Ozeki

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 shortlisted for the 2013 Man Booker Prize and translated into 28 languages. She has also written a short memoir, The Face: A Time Code. She is affiliated with the Everyday Zen Foundation and lives in Northampton, Massachusetts, where she teaches creative writing at Smith College and is the Grace Jarcho Ross 1933 Professor of Humanities.

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Title:

The Book of Form and Emptiness (MP3)

Written by:

Ruth Ozeki 

Read by:

Kerry Shale; Ruth Ozeki 

Format:

Unabridged MP3 CD Audio Book 

Number of CDs:

2 

Duration:

18 hours 55 minutes 

MP3 size:

820 MB 

Published:

December 01 2021 

Available Date:

December 01 2021 

Age Category:

Adult 

ISBN:

9781867585954 

Genres:

Fiction; Contemporary Fiction; General Fiction; Literary Fiction 

Publisher:

Bolinda audio 

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Award winning author

Winner Women's Prize for Fiction 2022
Longlisted Dublin Literary Award 2023

A brilliantly inventive new story about loss, growing up and our relationship with things, by the Booker Prize–shortlisted author of A Tale for the Time Being.

After his father dies, Benny Oh finds he can hear objects talking: teapots, marbles and sharpened pencils, babbling in anger or distress. His mother, struggling to support their household alone, starts collecting things to give her comfort. Overwhelmed by the clamour of all the stuff, Benny seeks refuge in the beautiful silence of the public library. There, the objects speak only in whispers. There, he meets a homeless poet and a mesmerising young performance artist. There, a book reaches out to him. Not just any book: his own book. And a very important conversation begins. The Book of Form and Emptiness is about grief, resilience, creativity and psychological difference. It is about the importance of reading, and an observation of the mess consumer culture has got us into. It is an affirmation of the power of community. It is funny, kind, wise, urgent and completely irresistible. If you let it – if you listen – it could change your life.

'Once again, Ozeki has created a masterpiece. Her generous heart, remarkable imagination and brilliant mind light up every page.'
Karen Joy Fowler, author of We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves

'Heart-breaking and heart-healing – a book to not only keep us absorbed but also to help us think and love and live and listen. No one writes quite like Ruth Ozeki and The Book of Form and Emptiness is a triumph.'
Matt Haig, author of The Midnight Library

'Ingenious and touching, A Tale for the Time Being is also highly readable. And interesting: the contrast of cultures is especially well done.'
Philip Pullman, award winning author of His Dark Materials series