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What did your face look like before your parents were born? In The Face: A Time Code, best-selling author and Zen Buddhist priest Ruth Ozeki recounts, in moment-to-moment detail, a profound encounter with memory and the mirror. According to ancient Zen tradition, 'your face before your parents were born' is your original face. Who are you? What is your true self? What is your identity before or beyond the dualistic distinctions, like father/mother and good/evil, that come to define us?

First published in 1956, No-No Boy was virtually ignored by a public eager to put World War II and the Japanese internment behind them. No-No Boy tells the story of Ichiro Yamada, a fictional version of the real-life "no-no boys". Yamada answered "no" twice in a compulsory government questionnaire as to whether he would serve in the armed forces and swear loyalty to the United States. Unwilling to pledge himself to the country that interned him and his family, Ichiro earns two years in prison and the hostility of his family and community when he returns home to Seattle.

Ein Jahr nach dem Unfalltod seines Vaters beginnt der dreizehn Jahre alte Benny Oh Stimmen zu hören. Es sind die Stimmen der unbelebten Gegenstände in seinem Zuhause – seine Sneakers, eine zerbrochene Weihnachtskugel, ein Blatt welker Salat. Gleichzeitig beginnt seine Mutter Annabelle, immer mehr Dinge zu horten, bis es kaum mehr einen freien Platz auf dem Fußboden oder in den Regalen ihres Hauses gibt. Mutter und Sohn drohen in ihrer Trauer den Halt zu verlieren – bis sie auf ein Buch stoßen, das sie womöglich zu retten imstande ist.

O que acontece quando um diário perdido cai nas mãos da pessoa certa? Catando mariscos na praia de uma remota ilha do Canadá, a escritora Ruth se depara com um saco plástico coberto de cracas que envolve uma lancheira da Hello Kitty. Dentro, encontra o livro de Marcel Proust, Em busca do tempo perdido, e se surpreende ao descobrir que na verdade se trata do diário da menina japonesa, Nao.

DESPRE AUDIOBOOK. Câștigătoare Women's Prize for Fiction 2022. Massachusetts Book Award. BC and Yukon Book Prize. Julia Ward Howe Prize for Fiction. După...