At the crematorium, all Benny can think to ask his mother Annabelle is: “You going to burn his clarinet too?” Even though the body in the coffin is not really his father, Benny concludes, he still can’t bear to see it “thrown into a fire”. Every single thing is, in some sense, writing a book.īenny Oh is still a boy when his father Kenji, a Korean-Japanese jazz musician at the time a little the worse for wear from drink, is run over by a chicken truck in an alley behind their house on the edge of Chinatown.
In this, her fourth, everything possesses – everything is made up of – language. Her third novel, A Tale for the Time Being, was shortlisted for the 2013 Booker prize.
A merican-Canadian author Ruth Ozeki is a film-maker, a Zen priest and a teacher of writing.
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