The Phone Box at the Edge of the World

A sweeping, moving novel that is becoming an international sensation - based on an incredible true story.

About the author

Laura Imai Messina (Author)
Laura Imai Messina was born in Rome and moved to Tokyo at the age of twenty-three. Her international bestselling novel The Phone Box at the Edge of the World was published in thirty-one countries. Laura teaches at some of the most prestigious Japanese universities, as well as writing for newspapers and working with the Japanese National TV Channel NHK.

Lucy Rand (Translator)
Lucy Rand was shortlisted for the TA First Translation Prize for The Phone Box at the Edge of the World which she translated while living in Japan. She has also translated novels by Italian authors Paolo Milone and Irene Graziosi, and is the editor of the guided audiobook app, Audrey. She now lives in Norwich.
Lucy Rand is a teacher, editor and translator from Norfolk, UK. She has been living in the countryside of Oita in south-west Japan for three years.

Summary

A sweeping, moving novel that is becoming an international sensation - based on an incredible true story.

Foreword

A sweeping, moving novel that is becoming an international sensation - based on an incredible true story

Product details

• Authors: Laura Imai Messina, Laura Imai Imai Messina, Laura Messina, Laura Imai Messina
• Assisted by: Lucy Rand (Translation)
• Publisher: Zaffre Bonnier
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.06.2020
• EAN: 9781786580399
• ISBN: 978-1-78658-039-9
• Dimensions: 145 mm x 225 mm x 40 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Japan, FICTION / Family Life, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Contemporary Women, Fiction in translation, FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Death, Grief, Bereavement, TRAVEL / Asia / Japan, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Asian / Japanese, Narrative theme: Death, grief, loss, PSYCHOLOGY / Grief & Loss