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The Book of Form and Emptiness

By: Ruth Ozeki
Narrated by: Kerry Shale, Ruth Ozeki
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Publisher's summary

Winner of the Women's Prize for Fiction 2022.

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.
©2021 Ruth Ozeki (P)2021 Canongate Books Ltd.
Coming of Age Magical Realism
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Unforgettable

Sensitive, empathetic, so fumny and sad at the same time. This is a book that will stay with me for a long time.

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