Fires rage as the redwoods burn and in the deep ocean, a pilot whale carries her dead baby on her nose, while sea turtles weep briny tears onto nets of plastic.

At the sound of a footstep, a young girl freezes, and Andromeda sparkles in the firmament. The plundered moon and all its craters globes and stars and asteroids a jet black crow with a diamond tiara a flock of rubber duckies, spinning through the Pacific gyres. Pyramids of sulfur, rising yellow in the mist. To support the Guardian and Observer order your copy at. And, oh, the visions we had!Ĭontainer ships glittering on a moonlit night off the coast of Alaska. The Book of Form and Emptiness: A Novel Hardcover Septemby Ruth Ozeki (Author) 3,312 ratings Editors' pick Best Literature & Fiction See all formats and editions Kindle 11.99 Read with Our Free App Audiobook 0.00 Free with your Audible trial Hardcover 17.49 58 Used from 5.26 36 New from 12.63 10 Collectible from 15. The Book of Form and Emptiness by Ruth Ozeki is published by Canongate (18.99). Some of these sounds were so beautiful they made you laugh out loud and clap your hands with delight, and others were so sad they made tears run down your face. With your supernatural ears, you were able to perceive, with absolute clarity, the sinuous shapes and contours of the sounds that matter makes as it moves through space and time and mind. For the first time you could see the voices of the things you'd been hearing for so long, all that clamorous matter vying for your attention. “Do you remember our conversation? Do you remember the places we went and the things we saw? The bindery was our access, the point in space that contains all other points, and that night you were a boy unbound, a tiny astronaut, taking your first leap into an infinite and unknowable universe.

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