Ebook {Epub PDF} The Face: A Time Code by Ruth Ozeki

 · In The Face: A Time Code, bestselling author and Zen Buddhist priest Ruth Ozeki recounts, in moment-to-moment detail, a profound encounter with memory and the mirror. According to ancient Zen tradition, “your face before your parents were born” is Brand: Restless Books.  · In Time Code of a Face, bestselling author Ruth Ozeki recounts, in moment-to-moment detail, a profound encounter with memory and the mirror. The author challenges herself to spend three hours staring into her own reflection, recording her thoughts, and noticing every possible detail. Those solitary hours open up a lifetime's worth of meditations on race, age, family, death, the body, self. Questions of belonging appear throughout the work of biracial writer Ruth Ozeki, but she tackles her understanding of self directly in her experimental nonfiction piece, The Face: A Time Code. In it, Ozeki builds on an assignment by Jennifer L. Roberts, professor of art history and architecture at Harvard, that she comes across in an article written by Roberts herself. Roberts instructs students to observe a .

Ozeki's meditative, era-flipping story starts with a chance discovery by a Japanese-American novelist called Ruth. Ruth lives on an island in British Columbia. Walking on the beach she stumbles on. This item: Face: A Time Code, The (The Face) by Ruth Ozeki Paperback. £ Only 10 left in stock (more on the way). Sent from and sold by Amazon. £ delivery. All Over Creation. by Ruth L. Ozeki Paperback. £ Ruth Ozeki is a novelist, filmmaker, and Zen Buddhist priest. Her first two novels, My Year of Meats () and All Over Creation (), have been translated into 11 languages and published in fourteen countries. Her most recent work, A Tale for the Time-Being (), was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and has been published in over thirty countries.

TIME CODE Staring at my face, I’m aware that I want to touch it. Touch the scar on my forehead, the pimple on my chin, rub my nose, my eyes, scratch my cheek. I’m aware that everything looks wrong, my face, my hair, my collar, and I want to fix things. “Ruth Ozeki, a Zen Buddhist priest, sets herself the task of staring at her face in a mirror for three full, uninterrupted hours; her The Face: A Time Code Ruth Ozeki is a novelist, filmmaker, and Zen Buddhist priest. Her first two novels, My Year of Meats () and All Over Creation (), have been translated into 11 languages and published in fourteen countries.