Lee Langley

A 21st-century Holden Caulfield: The Book of Form and Emptiness, by Ruth Ozeki, reviewed

Teenage Benny plays truant from a psychiatric unit and builds a secret life for himself among the books in the city library

Ruth Ozeki. [Getty Images]
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  • The Book of Form & Emptiness

    Ruth Ozeki

    Canongate, pp. 560, £18

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