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The Book of Form and Emptiness is a novel by American author Ruth Ozeki, published in 2021 by Viking. Ozeki's fourth novel, the book won the 2022 Women's Prize for Fiction. The story follows a boy who hears voices from inanimate objects while the narrative explores themes of mental illness and bereavement. [1]
The meaning of emptiness as contemplated here is explained at M I.297 and S IV.296-97 as the "emancipation of the mind by emptiness" (suññatā cetovimutti) being consequent upon the realization that "this world is empty of self or anything pertaining to self" (suññam ida ṃ attena vā attaniyena vā). [16] [17]
Chapter Ten refers to a tenth chapter in a book. Chapter Ten, Chapter 10, or Chapter X may also refer to: Music
The book has been referenced in the Netflix television series, You. [29] In a 2023 survey among writers by the LA Times, Play It As It Lays was voted the third most popular LA book. [30] Literary Hub listed the novel in its list of 10 Essential Books That Capture Los Angeles in All Its Sublime, Beautiful Darkness. [31]
Darkness Visible is a 1979 novel by British author William Golding. The book won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. [2] The title comes from Paradise Lost, from the line, "No light, but rather darkness visible". [3] The novel narrates a struggle between good and evil, using naïveté, sexuality and spirituality throughout.
A Tale of Two Cities is a historical novel published in 1859 by English author Charles Dickens, set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution.The novel tells the story of the French Doctor Manette, his 18-year-long imprisonment in the Bastille in Paris, and his release to live in London with his daughter Lucie whom he had never met.
An oft-quoted saying in the book is "true journey is return." [11] The meaning of Shevek's theories—which deal with the nature of time and simultaneity—have been subject to interpretation. For example, there have been interpretations that the non-linear nature of the novel is a reproduction of Shevek's theory. [12]
In the introduction to the first edition of his novel, [1] Greene states that he had forgotten about this story until receiving a letter about it from a stranger in 1983. Greene had first suggested it as an idea for a film script in 1937, set during the Spanish Civil War , and later developed it while under contract with MGM during the 1940s.