The Book of Form and Emptiness

From the author of the bestseller My Fish Will Live. For the first time in Russian, the new novel by Ruth Ozeki. The author's novels have been translated into more than 30 languages. An exciting development in the series Great Novels, launched by the hit The Collected Works. Ruth Ozeki is an American of Japanese descent, a specialist in classical Japanese literature, a director, and a Buddhist priest, finalist for the Booker Prize, and winner of the prestigious The Women's Prize for Fiction 2022. In Japan, things often speak, or rather, the spirits residing in them do. But the characters live not in Japan, but in America, and when a year after the death of his musician father, Benny begins to hear the voices of things, it frightens him seriously. The voices follow him everywhere, and only in the silence of the library does he find a quiet refuge. There, Benny discovers a strange world. He falls in love with a charming street artist, meets a homeless philosopher-poet who encourages him to ask important questions and find his own voice among many. Ultimately, he finds the talking Book that tells stories of life and teaches Benny to listen to what truly matters.