Five minutes with: Ruth Ozeki
Meet Ruth Ozeki, author of the Women’s Prize 2022 winning novel The Book of Form and Emptiness. The 2022 Chair of Judges...
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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. When ignoring them doesn’t work, 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 who encourages him to find his own voice amongst the many; 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 everything from jazz to climate change to our attachment to material possessions, this is classic Ruth Ozeki – bold, humane and heartbreaking.
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Maggie Shipstead
Elif Shafak
Meg Mason
Lisa Allen-Agostini
Louise Erdrich
Ruth Ozeki
Violet Kupersmith
Kirsty Capes
Morowa Yejidé
Rachel Elliott
Maggie Shipstead
Catherine Chidgey
Lulu Allison
Meg Mason
Ruth Ozeki
Lisa Allen-Agostini
Charlotte Mendelson
Dawnie Walton
Elif Shafak
Miranda Cowley Heller
Louise Erdrich
Leone Ross
Barbara Kingsolver
Ruth Ozeki
Susanna Clarke
Maggie O'Farrell
Tayari Jones
Kamila Shamsie
Naomi Alderman
Lisa McInerney
Ali Smith
Eimear McBride
A.M. Homes
Madeline Miller
Téa Obreht
Barbara Kingsolver
Marilynne Robinson
Rose Tremain
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Lionel Shriver
Andrea Levy
Valerie Martin
Ann Patchett
Kate Grenville
Linda Grant
Suzanne Berne
Carol Shields
Anne Michaels
Helen Dunmore
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