The Typing Lady
And Other Fictions
$31.65
- Paperback
304 pages
- Release Date
2 June 2026
Summary
A new collection of short stories from beloved Women’s-Prize winning author Ruth Ozeki.
A spellbinding story collection about the lives we almost lived, the people we can’t quite forget, and the stories that shape us.
A college student falls for her professor and learns to transmute longing into language. A disquieted husband watches with tenderness and unease as the ghost of his wife’s ambition roams the woods outside their home. A long-deceased Beat poet hijacks the mind of …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781923058477 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1923058479 |
| Author: | Ruth Ozeki |
| Publisher: | Text Publishing |
| Imprint: | The Text Publishing Company |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 304 |
| Release Date: | 2 June 2026 |
| Weight: | 422g |
| Dimensions: | 233mm x 154mm x 30mm |
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Critics Review
‘If you’ve lost your way with fiction over the last year or two, let The Book of Form and Emptiness light your way home.’
* David Mitchell on The Book of Form and Emptiness *‘No one writes quite like Ruth Ozeki and The Book of Form and Emptiness is a triumph.’
* Matt Haig on The Book of Form and Emptiness *‘Ten out of ten.’ * John Safran, RN Bookshelf *
‘Ozeki gives us a metaphor for our very own American consumption disorder, our love-hate relationship with the stuff we produce and can’t let go of.’ * New York Times Book Review *
About The Author
Ruth Ozeki
Ruth Ozeki was born and raised in Connecticut by an American father and a Japanese mother. She is a novelist, filmmaker, and Zen Buddhist priest whose books have garnered international acclaim.
Her first two novels, My Year of Meats (1998) and All Over Creation (2003), have been translated into eleven languages and published in fourteen countries. Her third novel, A Tale for the Time Being (2013), won the LA Times Book Prize, was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award, and has been published in over thirty countries.
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