Name: The Phone Booth at the Edge of the World: A Novel
SKU: 54488346
Price: 28.04 EUR
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Author: Laura Imai Messina
ISBN: 9781419754319

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The Phone Booth at the Edge of the World: A Novel

Type

Physical Book

Author

Laura Imai Messina

Publisher

Harry N. Abrams

Language

English

Pages

416

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

20.1x13.7x2.7 cm

Weight

0.42 kg.

ISBN13

9781419754319

Synopsis "The Phone Booth at the Edge of the World: A Novel "

The international bestselling novel, sold in 21 countries, about grief, mourning, and the joy of survival, inspired by a real phone booth in Japan with its disconnected "wind" phone, a place of pilgrimage and solace since the 2011 tsunami--now in paperbackWhen Yui loses both her mother and her daughter in the tsunami, she begins to mark the passage of time from that date onward: Everything is relative to March 11, 2011, the day the tsunami tore Japan apart, and when grief took hold of her life. Yui struggles to continue on, alone with her pain. Then, one day she hears about a man who has an old disused telephone booth in his garden. There, those who have lost loved ones find the strength to speak to them and begin to come to terms with their grief. As news of the phone booth spreads, people travel to it from miles around. Soon Yui makes her own pilgrimage to the phone booth, too. But once there she cannot bring herself to speak into the receiver. Instead she finds Takeshi, a bereaved husband whose own daughter has stopped talking in the wake of her mother's death. Simultaneously heartbreaking and heartwarming, The Phone Booth at the Edge of the World is the signpost pointing to the healing that can come after.

Laura Imai Messina

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Laura Imai Messina (Rome, August 16, 1981) is an Italian writer and academic who has been living in Japan since she was 23. She graduated in Literature from the University of La Sapienza in Rome and then moved to Tokyo, where she earned a master's degree in Comparative Cultures at the International Christian University and a PhD in Literary Studies at the Tokyo University of Foreign Studies.

She is the author of several literary works, among which stands out What You Entrust to the Wind (Quel che affidiamo al vento, 2020), an international success translated into more than twenty languages. The novel is inspired by the "Wind Phone," a symbolic phone located in Japan that allows people to talk to deceased loved ones, and tells the story of a woman seeking to heal after losing her family in the 2011 tsunami. The work has been adapted into a film by the producer Cattleya.

In addition to her career as a novelist, Laura Imai Messina teaches Italian language at Japanese universities and collaborates with media such as La Repubblica and La Stampa. She has also written children's books and essays about Japan, standing out for her ability to bridge cultural gaps between East and West.

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