The Book of Form and Emptiness by Ruth Ozeki Groundswell Speaker 2024 Title: Nineteen Eighty-Four

Title: Nineteen Eighty-Four

absurdly funny novel-in-letters about complicated families and missed connections

several kilos of heroin

PhaidonISBN: 9780714872780Extent: 240 pages

his lack of remorse compounds his guilt in the eyes of society and the law

The Book of Form and Emptiness by Ruth Ozeki Groundswell Speaker 2024 Title: Nineteen Eighty-FourWINNER OF THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2022 When a book and a reader are meant for each other, both of them know it . . . After the tragic death of his father, fourteen year old Benny Oh begins to hear voices. The voices belong to the things in his house and sound variously pleasant, angry or sad. Then his mother develops a hoarding problem, and the voices grow more clamorous. So Benny seeks refuge in the silence of a large public library. There he