Laura Imai Messina
Author · 11 books
Laura Imai Messina was born in Rome and graduated in Literature from La Sapienza University. She moved to Tokyo at the age of twenty-three to perfect the language and has been permanently living in Japan ever since. She obtained a first level doctorate in Comparative Cultures at the International Christian University with a thesis on the Japanese writer Ogawa Yōko and at the Tokyo University of Foreign Studies a PhD with a comparative thesis on the subject of materiality in Japanese and European literature.
Books
The Phone Booth at the Edge of the World
2020
The Library of Heartbeats
A sweeping, heart-rending novel from the international bestselling author of The Phone Box at the Edge of the World
2022
Tutti gli indirizzi perduti
2024
Il Giappone a colori
2023
Tokyo orizzontale
2014
Wa. La via giapponese all'armonia
2018
Le vite nascoste dei colori
2021
Goro Goro. La pesca della stella, il viaggio di Daruma e altre storie giapponesi
2021
Le parole della pioggia
2025
Non oso dire la gioia
2018
Tōkyō tutto l'anno. Viaggio sentimentale nella grande metropoli
2020
