Yui in uno dei suoi tanti viaggi verso il telefono del vento incontra Taseki, che aveva perso la moglie. E così, “il momento in cui si incontravano iniziò ad apparire a entrambi non come il raccogliersi di due sconosciuti in un punto del mondo per poi raggiungerne un altro, bensì come un ritorno. Era lui che tornava a lei. Era lei che tornava a lui.” A moving and uplifting anatomisation of grief and the small miraculous moments that persuade people to start looking forward again' Sunday Times

Incredibly moving. It will break your heart and soothe your soul' Stacey Halls, Sunday Times bestselling author of The Familiars E insomma» aveva esordito la voce che aspirava a stretti intervalli una sigaretta «c’è questa cabina telefonica in mezzo a un giardino, su una collina isolata dal resto. Il telefono non è collegato ma le voci le porta via il vento. Dico Pronto Yōko, come stai? e mi pare di tornare ad essere quello di una volta, mia moglie che mi ascoltava dalla cucina, sempre indaffarata sulla colazione o sulla cena, io che brontolavo perché il caffè mi bruciava la lingua.»Thoughtful and tender, full of small daily moments and acts of kindness, Messina’s novel is a testament to the power of community (and a bit of whimsy) in moving forward after loss.” ― Shelf Awareness Messina is Italian, but has lived in Japan for 15 years with her Japanese husband and kids. I believe she is fluent in Japanese but the book is written in and translated from Italian (by Lucy Rand). The prose is simple and unfussy. At first I thought there might be a risk of the sweetness of the novel verging on saccharine, but Messina kept it nicely balanced. The concept of the phone box is something unheard of, at least it was to me, so I enjoyed researching more about it and learning. E i due si innamorano. E Taseki glielo avrebbe spiegato a Yui “Che è un vero miracolo l’amore. Anche il secondo, anche quello che arriva per sbaglio.”

Lucrurile care ajung să îți lipsească cel mai mult de la cei care se duc sunt tocmai fixurile lor, fleacurile, lucrurile deranjante.” 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.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. 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. Based on a true story the phone box at the edge of the world is in the small town of Otsuchi in northern Japan, an area devasted by the tsunami in 2011. I enjoyed the details added at the end of each chapter to give extra depth to the topic. Some of the addendums were lighthearted whereas others were really sombre and sad.

Yui and Takeshi have lost loved ones. Yui lost a daughter, Takeshi has lost his wife. They meet on their journey tomthenphone box and a bond is firmly made between them. Theynare travelling to the wind phone, al,old disconnected phone box that's in a garden of a stranger. It's said that it Carrie's your voice to the people you have lost. 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. Yui thinks to herself about how she might have cut herself into two: the world of the living and the world of the dead. How does this separation play out over the course of the novel?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. Through palpable tension balanced with glimmers of hope, Hoover beautifully captures the heartbreak and joy of starting over. I loved the thought of a phone box we could all go to and phone our loved ones that have passed away. It's a heartbreaking read but it's also full of hope. I loved both Yui and Takeshi who were believable and I found myself rooting for them. There's quite a lot of tragedy but by the time you reach the end you just feel glad that you've read it. This is a book you will think about for a long time after you've finished it. A story 9f love, loss and grief.

The RRP is the suggested or Recommended Retail Price of a product, set by the publisher or manufacturer. 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. What role does memory play in the book and what are some of the different perceptions of what it means to preserve things and people who have been lost? 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.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. myself becoming the person I was before, my wife listening to me from the kitchen, busy preparing breakfast or dinner, me grumbling that the coffee burned my tongue. As the pilgrimages to the phone box become a new routine, Yui and Takeshi’s lives are further entwined as they, and the characters they meet, each deal with grief—and with hope—in different ways. What I loved about this book was knowing that it was inspired by a true story. Known as "The Phone of the Wind" in Japan, the phone box sits in the garden of its caretaker in Bell Gardia.