Ruth Ozeki Ordre des livres (chronologique)

A revelatory short memoir from the author and Zen Buddhist priest Ruth Ozeki about how her face has shaped and been shaped by her life

A dazzling, heartbreaking page-turner destined for breakout status: a novel that gives voice to the displaced.

Nao lives in Tokyo. She is sixteen, and has decided to write a diary before she kills herself. She has plenty of material-school bullies, depressed parents-but she particularly wants to chronicle the life of her great-grandmother, Jiko, a Buddhist nun. And eventually, Nao thinks, her diary will find its reader. Ruth lives with her husband on the Pacific coast of Canada. A few months after the 2010 tsunami she finds a Hello Kitty lunchbox washed up on the shore. It contains a diary.

Some of the world's favourite authors each contribute a chapter in the life of the mysterious George 'Gee' Keane, photographer, soldier, adventurer and enigma. Under different pens, a startling picture emerges of a man who magically connects the lives and times of young people around the world . . .

With a lifetime of careful nurturing of potatoes and seeds behind them, Lloyd Fuller and his Japanese wife, Momoko, have begun to feel the ravages of time. Their only daughter, Yumi, left home twenty-five years ago, and now they must attempt to consider the future of their precious yet fragile livelihood. Meanwhile a troupe of young revolutionaries are scouring the land in their faithful Winnebego, their eccentric, volatile lives focused on restoring farming practice to its basic beginnings and curbing genetic modification once and for all. As the 'Seeds of Resistance' come crashing into Fullers Farms so too does Yumi return to the fold, and the lives of Lloyd and Momoko are certain never to be the same again.

L'épouse américaine aime la viande. L'épouse américaine représente l'idée de viande : robuste, saine et raisonnablement calorique. L'épouse américaine est la viande. Voilà toute l'idée du show télé que Jane Takagi-Little, journaliste métisse, anime pour le public japonais. Du boeuf au pays du poisson cru ? L'idée semble improbable, mais Jane l'a bien compris : sous le steak, c'est tout le rêve américain qu'elle introduit, de force, dans l'assiette du Japonais moyen. Sa double culture - ni d'ici ni de là-bas - sert merveilleusement le programme. Et ça marche ! Dans la banlieue de Tokyo, Akiko tente déjà de résister aux assauts de son mari, convaincu qu'elle ne parviendra à lui donner un enfant qu'après un sévère régime bovin.