"History for a Moment" by Ruth Ozeki

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Writer Ruth finds a stranded Hello Kitty lunch box on the beach of a Canadian island. Therein lies a diary. When reading Ruth is immediately drawn into the world of the young Japanese Nao. The girl is bullied, her father is depressed. But Nao has a wise great-grandmother, who still seeks enlightenment at the age of 104 and teaches Nao the secrets of Zen. The US-Japanese author Ruth Ozeki takes us on a journey into many foreign worlds in her extraordinary novel "History for a Moment": that of a puberty in Japan and that of Japanese Zen. But also in the kamikaze pilots and quantum physics.

(T: Tobias Schnettler, 560 p., 19.99 euros, S. Fischer)

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