![]() “And (I was) trying to get back in touch with that imaginary world, what it’s like to be a child and see the whole world as being alive.”Ī professor of English at Smith College in Massachusetts, Ozeki splits her time between that state, New York City and British Columbia. “As children, things always are speaking to us and we are always making things speak,” she added. I kept thinking, as I was going through this stuff, ‘If only these things could talk.’ “Every piece of plastic wrap, every piece of tinfoil, had been carefully washed and saved. “They were both children of the Depression, so they never threw anything away,” she said. Ozeki, 66, was raised in Connecticut by a Japanese mother and an American father, and says she began thinking about our relationship with objects as she was clearing out her parents’ house after their deaths. His world becomes increasingly cacophonous as his widowed mother deals with her grief by hoarding. ![]() ![]() ![]() Ozeki was awarded the 30,000-pound ($48,000 Canadian) prize at a ceremony in London for her story of a bereaved boy’s relationship with books and the objects in his house, all of which speak to him. LONDON Canadian-American writer Ruth Ozeki won the prestigious Women’s Prize for Fiction for “The Book of Form and Emptiness,” a playful, philosophical novel that explores people’s relationship to possessions. ![]()
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