Sieghart had said the novel was a “celebration of the power of books and reading” which tackled “big issues of life and death” it was “a complete joy to read”. Without the real investment of the reader the book fails.” “It’s a real dialogue between the reader and the writer. “You need to put yourself into the book,” she said. Ozeki said that books were “unique in that when a reader reads a book she’s engaged in a way” that she would not be with a TV show or film. The Book of Form and Emptiness is partly a book about listening.
Ozeki told the Guardian she felt very grateful to have won but added: “It’s quite random because any of the books on the long list and shortlist are completely worthy.” “I wanted to call out the names of the women who have supported me, because now more than ever this is a time that we need to speak out and rewrite the dominant narratives that have landed us into quite dire straits.” In her speech she thanked the women and women’s institutions who had supported her throughout her career. The Guardian review praised Ozeki’s “calm, dry, methodical good humour and wit, her love affairs with linguistics and jazz and the absurd, her cautious optimism”.Īccepting the award, Ozeki told the audience it was “absurd” she said she didn’t “win things”. There he meets a series of eccentric characters who teach him to listen to the things that truly matter.
When his mother develops a hoarding problem, the voices grow louder, so Benny seeks refuge in the silence and calm of a large public library. The Book of Form and Emptiness is about 14-year-old Benny Oh, who begins to hear voices belonging to the things in his house after the death of his father.
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