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

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ISBN	9781786580405 (paperback)
Name	Imai Messina, Laura author.
Uniform title	Quel che affidiamo al venta. English
Title	The phone box at the edge of the world / Laura Imai Messina ; translated from the Italian by Lucy Rand.
Published	London : Manilla Press, 2020.
Published	©2020
Description	400 pages ; 24 cm
Notes	"We all have somthing to tell those we have lost..." --Cover.
	"First published in Italian as Quel che affidiamo al venta in 2020 by Piemme"--Title page verso.
	Includes reading group questions and a Japanese-English glossary.
Summary	"When you have lost everything, what will you find? When Yui loses her mother and daughter in the tsunami, she wonders how she will ever carry on. Yet, in the face of this unthinkable loss, life must somehow continue. Then one day she hears about a widower who has an old disused telephone box in his garden. There the old man finds the strength to speak to his late wife and begin to come to terms with his grief. As news of the phone box spreads, people from miles around will travel there to connect with their own lost loved ones. Soon Yui will make a pilgrimage to the phone box, too. But once there she cannot bring herself to speak into the receiver. Then she finds 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 ..."--Provided by publisher.
Subjects	Death -- Fiction
	Families -- Fiction
	Grief -- Fiction
	Telephone booths -- Fiction
	Hope -- Fiction
	Bereavement -- Fiction
	Loss (Psychology) -- Fiction
	Pilgrims and pilgrimages -- Fiction
	Italian fiction -- Translations into English
Genre	Domestic fiction
Genre	Psychological fiction
Other Names	Rand, Lucy translator.
Links to Related Works	Subject References: Bereavement -- Fiction . Death -- Fiction . Domestic fiction . Families -- Fiction . Grief -- Fiction . Hope -- Fiction . Italian fiction -- Translations into English . Loss (Psychology) -- Fiction . Pilgrims and pilgrimages -- Fiction . Psychological fiction . Telephone booths -- Fiction . See Also: Stream of consciousness fiction . Authors: Imai Messina, Laura . Rand, Lucy .

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