ISBN 9781786580412|Paperback|416 pages|2021|Bonnier Books
The Phone Box at the Edge of the World by Laura Imai Messina is a moving story about how grief closes some doors but can open one to others and new experiences.
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ISBN 9781786580412|Paperback|416 pages|2021|Bonnier Books
The Phone Box at the Edge of the World by Laura Imai Messina is a moving story about how grief closes some doors but can open one to others and new experiences.
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On a windy hill in Japan, in a garden overlooking the sea stands a disused phone box. For years, people have travelled to visit the phone box, to pick up the receiver and speak into the wind: to pass their messages to loved ones no longer with us.
When Yui loses her mother and daughter in the tsunami, she is plunged into despair and wonders how she will ever carry on. One day she hears of the phone box, and decides to make her own pilgrimage there, to speak once more to the people she loved the most. But when you have lost everything, the right words can be the hardest thing to find . . .
Then she meets Takeshi, a bereaved husband whose own daughter has stopped talking in the wake of their loss. What happens next will warm your heart, even when it feels as though it is breaking . . .
The Phone Box at the Edge of the World is an unforgettable story of the depths of grief, the lightness of love and the human longing to keep the people who are no longer with us close to our hearts.
Author:
Laura Imai Messina
ISBN:
9781786580412
Binding:
Paperback
Pages:
416
Year of Publication:
2021
Publisher:
Bonnier Books
Edition:
Reissue
Condition:
New
Country of Origin:
United Kingdom
About the Author
The author was born in Rome and graduated in Literature from La Sapienza University. She moved to Tokyo at the age of twenty-three to perfect the language and has been permanently living in Japan ever since. She obtained a first level doctorate in Comparative Cultures at the International Christian University with a thesis on the Japanese writer Ogawa Yōko and at the Tokyo University of Foreign Studies a PhD with a comparative thesis on the subject of materiality in Japanese and European literature.
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