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The Phone Booth at the Edge of the World audiobook
- By: Laura Imai Messina
- Narrator: Traci Kato-Kiriyama
- Category: Fiction, Literary
- Length: 5 hours 19 minutes
- Publisher: Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group
- Publish date: January 01, 2021
- Language: English
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The Phone Booth at the Edge of the World Audiobook Summary
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
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.
Simultaneously heartbreaking and heartwarming, The Phone Booth at the Edge of the World is the signpost pointing to the healing that can come after.
* This audiobook includes a downloadable PDF of reading group questions and a glossary from the book.
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The Phone Booth at the Edge of the World Audiobook Narrator
Traci Kato-Kiriyama is the narrator of The Phone Booth at the Edge of the World audiobook that was written by Laura Imai Messina
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Laura Imai Messina is the author of The Phone Booth at the Edge of the World
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The Phone Booth at the Edge of the World Full Details
| Narrator | Traci Kato-Kiriyama |
| Length | 5 hours 19 minutes |
| Author | Laura Imai Messina |
| Category | |
| Publisher | Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group |
| Release date | April 30, 2024 |
| ISBN | 9780593458945 |
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The publisher of the The Phone Booth at the Edge of the World is Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group. includes the following subjects: literary fiction, women's fiction, gifts for women, gifts for her, realistic fiction books, fiction, novels, women, fiction books, literature, books fiction, women gifts, marriage, romance, relationships, feminism, family, contemporary fiction, love, friendship, culture, motherhood, drama, realistic fiction, war, short stories, sisters, french, death, parenting, classic, translation, divorce, french literature, families, grief, feminist, fairy tales, spirituality, language, mothers day gifts, mothers and daughters, aging, philosophy, Fiction, Literary, Fiction, Cultural Heritage, Fiction, Contemporary Women The BISAC Subject Code is Fiction, Literary
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The publisher of the The Phone Booth at the Edge of the World is Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group. The imprint is Random House Audio. It is supplied by Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group. The ISBN-13 is 9780593458945.
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This book is only available in the United States.
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