The phone booth at the edge of the world / Laura Imai Messina ; translated from the Italian by Lucy Rand.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Imai Messina, Laura.

Contributor:

Rand, Lucy., Translator.

Language:

English

Italian

Subjects (All):

Tohoku Earthquake and Tsunami, Japan, 2011--Fiction.

Tohoku Earthquake and Tsunami, Japan, 2011.

Japan--Fiction.

Japan.

Telephone booths--Fiction.

Telephone booths.

Grief--Fiction.

Grief.

Death--Fiction.

Death.

Book clubs (Discussion groups)--Handbooks, manuals, etc.

Book clubs (Discussion groups).

Italian fiction--Translations into English.

Italian fiction.

Genre:

Novels.

Fiction.

Physical Description:

400 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Overlook Press, 2022.

Language Note:

In English translated from the Italian.

Summary:

When 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.

Notes:

Includes reading group questions.

Local Notes:

Athenaeum copy: Miller Fund bookplate.

ISBN:

1419754319

9781419754319

OCLC:

1299143315