: 2022 Women’s Prize for Fiction winner: Is ‘The Book of Form and Emptiness’ Ruth Ozeki’s best? #IndiaNEWS On Wednesday, Ruth Ozeki won the 2022 Women’s Prize for Fiction for her novel, The

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2022 Women’s Prize for Fiction winner: Is ‘The Book of Form and Emptiness’ Ruth Ozeki’s best? #IndiaNEWS
On Wednesday, Ruth Ozeki won the 2022 Women’s Prize for Fiction for her novel, The Book of Form and Emptiness. She was in the shortlist with five other authors. Undoubtedly, Ozeki is a gifted writer but, is The Book of Form and Emptiness her best work yet?Benny Oh is a twelve year old boy who hears objects talking. His mother, once happy and healthy, starts hoarding things and gaining weight. These are the direct outcomes of the untimely death of Benji’s beloved father, Kenny Oh. Life is tough but there are books, libraries, and Zen wisdom to turn to.Benji’s mother, Annabelle, becomes a hoarder by chance – kitchenware, snow globes, newspapers – anything and everything is collected in hopes of filling the void left by her husband. Kenny was a musician and Benny makes up for his father’s silences by hearing the voices of inanimate objects like coffee cups and pencils. In a way, things speak to both Anabelle and Benny.The voices are insistent (and insolent) until Benny can no longer bear it. A doctor decides that it is best to ship off Benny to a pediatric psychiatry ward. “The minute I walk through the door of a Starbucks, the overhead fluorescent fixtures start buzzing with this anxiety of meaning,...Read more

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