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The Book of Form and Emptiness

by Ruth Ozeki - £9.99  Canongate Books Ltd (2022)
paperback    ISBN 13: 9781838855277 | ISBN 10: 1838855270

A brilliantly inventive novel about loss, growing up and our relationship with things, by the Booker Prize-shortlisted author of A Tale for the Time Being.
 
WINNER OF THE 2022 WOMEN’S PRIZE FOR FICTION
 
When 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.

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