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.
