{"product_id":"9781838857639-the-book-of-form-emptiness","title":"The Book Of Form \u0026 Emptiness","description":"\u003cp\u003eGrief has a voice, and in Ruth Ozeki's The Book of Form \u0026amp; Emptiness, it speaks directly to thirteen-year-old Benny Oh, a boy reeling from the sudden death of his father, whose musician's soul has left behind a world overflowing — quite literally — with the sounds of ordinary objects. As his mother, Annabelle, drowns in compulsive hoarding and her own unprocessed sorrow, Benny begins to hear the voices of things: a bottle cap, a forgotten shoe, the very book he inhabits — and seeks refuge in the chaotic sanctuary of a public library, where he encounters a wild cast of outsiders who each hold a fragment of the truth he is searching for.\n\nA Man Booker Prize-shortlisted tour de force, this novel weaves together Buddhist philosophy, the nature of consciousness, and the strange, cluttered beauty of contemporary American life with the deft precision of a master storyteller. Ozeki — a Zen Buddhist priest and novelist — crafts a narrative that is at once tender and formally audacious, as the Book itself becomes a living narrator, a guide, and a character in its own right. Rich with compassion, dark humour, and metaphysical wonder, it poses a haunting question: in a world drowning in things, how does one find the space to simply be?\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Book Grocer","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50736063774939,"sku":"9781838857639","price":25.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/ecc15cf5-ba1e-4576-bf6f-71e4f768774c.png?v=1792122319","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/9781838857639-the-book-of-form-emptiness","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}