Fires rage as the redwoods burn and in the deep ocean, a pilot whale carries her dead baby on her nose, while sea turtles weep briny tears onto nets of plastic. Start reading Ruth Ozeki's fourth novel, The Book of Form and Emptiness, an inventive story about loss, growing up, and our relationship with things. 21, 2021 A boy who hears objects talking and his mother, who can’t stop hoarding things, work out their destinies in a meditative tribute to books, libraries, and Zen wisdom. At the sound of a footstep, a young girl freezes, and Andromeda sparkles in the firmament. THE BOOK OF FORM AND EMPTINESS by Ruth Ozeki RELEASE DATE: Sept.

The plundered moon and all its craters globes and stars and asteroids a jet black crow with a diamond tiara a flock of rubber duckies, spinning through the Pacific gyres. Pyramids of sulfur, rising yellow in the mist. One year after the death of his beloved musician father, thirteen-year-old Benny Oh begins to hear voices. And, oh, the visions we had!Ĭontainer ships glittering on a moonlit night off the coast of Alaska. Book Summary A boy who hears the voices of objects all around him a mother drowning in her possessions and a Book that might hold the secret to saving them boththe brilliantly inventive new novel from the Booker Prize-finalist Ruth Ozeki. Some of these sounds were so beautiful they made you laugh out loud and clap your hands with delight, and others were so sad they made tears run down your face. The Book of Form and Emptiness: A Novel Paperback Jby Ruth Ozeki (Author) 3,345 ratings Editors pick Best Literature & Fiction See all formats and editions Kindle 13. With your supernatural ears, you were able to perceive, with absolute clarity, the sinuous shapes and contours of the sounds that matter makes as it moves through space and time and mind. For the first time you could see the voices of the things you'd been hearing for so long, all that clamorous matter vying for your attention. “Do you remember our conversation? Do you remember the places we went and the things we saw? The bindery was our access, the point in space that contains all other points, and that night you were a boy unbound, a tiny astronaut, taking your first leap into an infinite and unknowable universe.

The book of emptiness and form