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Incidentally, A Tale for the Time Being was a semi-finalist in the Tournament of Books and short-listed for the Man Booker prize. We have about a month left until our next meeting so I hope some of you have started the book. Rudy passed along a great episode from This American Life that feathers in nicely with the book. I've attached his comments below:
"I
happened to be listening to an episode of This American Life over the
weekend and was amazed at how relevant it was to A Tale for the Time
Being. I haven’t finished the book yet, so it might not be spot-on, but
the TAL episode (from Sept. 23) started with a story about a guy in
Japan who missed his dead relative and put a telephone booth in his back
yard, although not hooked up to anything, so that he could “call” him
to say the things he was thinking. Then, after the earthquake &
tsunami, lots of people started to come to use his “kaze denwa” (wind
phone) to talk to the people they lost. NHK filmed and recorded people
so there’s lots of interesting footage."
The This American Life episode is online and available here. It’s about 22 minutes long. Here's the NHK video.
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