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The Book of Form and Emptiness

ISBN 
9781838855277
Format 
Paperback
Recommended Price 
R245.00
Published 
May 2022
About the book: 
Winner of the Women’s Prize for Fiction 2022, this is a brilliantly inventive new novel about loss, growing up and our relationship with things
 
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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