The Phone Box at the Edge of the World: The most moving, unforgettable book you will read, inspired by true events

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Between chapters that follow Yui’s story and the experiences of other grieving people who visit the phone booth, author Laura Imai Messina intersperses bite-size sections that are almost like poems. They have titles such as “Parts of Yui’s Body She Entrusted to Others Over the Years” and “Two Things Yui Discovered After Googling ‘Hug’ the Next Day.” These snippets are lovely breathers, a chance for the reader to marvel at the tiny details that make up a life. Ich konnte das Buch nicht schnell lesen, musste Pausen einlegen, geschriebenes verarbeiten und nachdenken. Ein zeitloses Buch, welches sich immer und immer wieder lesen lässt. Hab es wahnsinnig gern gelesen. 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. The Phone Box at the Edge of the World is powerful and moving, thoughtful and evocative. Messina writes with both clarity and restraint, with the ability to reveal much in a single, compressed paragraph. In an early description of Yui, Messina writes:

A moving and uplifting anatomisation of grief and the small miraculous moments that persuade people to start looking forward again' Sunday Times New Book Announcement: “The Inscription of Things: Writing and Materiality in Early Modern China” by Thomas Kelly 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

eher anekdotisch erzählt. So begegnen wir zwar den unterschiedlichsten Trauernden, mir fehlte trotzdem irgendwie ein Plot-Element, das mich als roter Faden stärker an die Hand genommen hätte.

ji ant stalo išpildavo sklidiną kibirėlį dienos įspūdžių,o jis tame smėlyje ieškodavo mažiausių kriauklyčių, kad galėtų jomis pasidžiaugti ir nuraminti žmoną.. 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. Then one day she hears about a man who has an old disused telephone box 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 box spreads, people will travel there from miles around. A resident had the idea of placing an old phone booth at the bottom of his garden with a disconnected rotary phone that he could use to ring his deceased cousin (prior to the March 2011 disaster) and his words would "be carried on the wind" as he spoke to him.A story about the dogged survival of hope when all else is lost . . . Messina shows us that even in the face of a terrible tragedy, such as an earthquake or a loss of a child, the small things – a cup of tea, a proffered hand – can offer a way ahead. Its meditative minimalism makes it a striking haiku of the human heart.” ― The Times (London) Grief is a powerful substance in our life.It can change and shape a person’s entire life.I love that this book centralizes the idea of healing. 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 . . .

A book begging to be read on the beach, with the sun warming the sand and salt in the air: pure escapism. I do appreciate that I learned a bit more about Japanese culture and I feel I have a deeper understanding of how the 2011 tsunami influenced them.Incredibly moving. It will break your heart and soothe your soul' Stacey Halls, Sunday Times bestselling author of The Familiars Comparing her work to Murakami, Banana Yoshimoto, Natsuo Kirino or Kenzaburo Oe, is tonally inappropriate and woefully reductive, yet Messina does echo their prowess at moments, thereby perhaps inviting tempered comparison. I’m paying her a compliment, not disparaging her by faint association. Messina has not, to my mind, joined their ranks, however aspects of her writing are engagingly impressive. Her future novels may well evince the true measure of her talent. Reading Paulette Jiles' revenge western Chenneville, it's easy to remember she's a poet. She plays ... In the aftermath of the 2011 tsunami that followed a 9.0 earthquake, 20,000 lives were lost, and an untold number of families were devastated by the loss, a loss that continues to haunt these families. Yui, a young woman, is one who lost loved ones, family. Her daughter and her mother, both. Her sorrow is palpable, but is shared by the many people who call in to share their stories at the radio station where she works. Speaking of Japanese literature when interviewed in 2018 by The New York Transatlantic, Messina said, “It meets the need for beauty and meditation. The task of literature is to suggest new ways of being in the world, to connect the here to the there”. So says the author in the epilogue to her own novel. To my mind, Messina has attempted to echo the poet Basho (1644-1694) and take the spirit and purpose of the Haiku and elegantly transmute it into the form of an elegiac prose novel. Aspects of her touching book soar like eagles swooping above ice capped mountains, raising our spirits to meet them high above the ground of human grief. However, a cathartic literary therapy must be more than a fragrant, technically assured balm.

For me, the Wind Phone is mainly this: a metaphor that suggests how precious it is to hold on tight to joy as well as pain. That even when we are confronted by the subtractions, the things that life takes from us, we have to open ourselves up to the many additions it can offer too." This book had a few draws for me right off the bat. One: A really pretty cover, which usually means disaster, two: debut novel, always very excited to read an author’s first book and three: the story takes place in Japan. It is not a tourist attraction. It is an opportunity for visitors to convey their thoughts to their lost loved ones as they work through the grieving process. Die Telefonzelle am Ende der Welt“, geschrieben von Laura Imai Messina ist eine Geschichte, die mich vollends berührt hat. Die Autorin greift hier eine wirklich tiefe Thematik, die der Trauer, des Neuanfangs, des Loslassens und einfach des Lebens, mit all seinem Licht und Schatten auf und verknüpft das ganze eben mit wahren Ereignissen und eben der Telefonzelle, am Ende der Welt... die es wirklich gibt und ein ganz besonderer Ort für viele Menschen ist, die ihren Toten geliebten Menschen gedenken, die noch nicht loslassen können und diese Telefonzelle als wichtigen Ort nutzen, um Abschied zu nehmen. Aber eben auch um neue Kraft zu schöpfen. Und so tauchte ich in diese Geschichte ein, tief bewegt, tief berührt und mit unzähligen Tränen in den Augen und doch dem Gefühl der Zuversicht, der Geborgenheit und der Hoffnung und Liebe im Herzen.Y Yui, nuestra protagonista, hace un recorrido emocional tan profundo y alborotado que no puedes evitar encariñarte y empatizar con ella. El final es muy bonito y pacífico. Cosa vi ha reso più semplice alzarvi la mattina e andare a letto la sera dopo un grande lutto? Cosa vi permette di stare bene quando vi sentite afflitti?» At the heart of the story is love and acceptance. A beautiful friendship blossoms between two users of the phone box, both suffering from huge familial losses. Their grief brings them together, and I appreciated how realistically their relationship developed. I also loved Messina's reflection on step-parents, the role they play and how they must feel.