Laura Imai Messina

Laura Imai Messina is an Italian author who has lived in Tokyo for over fifteen years. She writes in both Italian and Japanese and teaches at a Tokyo university. The Library of Heartbeats is her novel set in Japan — a tender, luminous story about a real-life library in Japan that records and preserves the heartbeats of the living and the dead. Her previous novel The Phone Booth at the End of the World was an international bestseller. Her audiobooks and books offer listeners and readers tender, luminous fiction from Japan — novels about love, loss, and the quiet ways we hold onto the people we have lost.