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Polly Barton - Fifty Sounds, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 2021

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Fifty Sounds

Av Polly Barton

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Why Japan? In Fifty Sounds, winner of the 2019 Fitzcarraldo Editions Essay Prize, Polly Barton attempts to exhaust her obsession with the country she moved to at the age of 21, before eventually becoming a literary translator. From min-min, the sound of air screaming, to jin-jin, the sound of being touched for the very first time, from hi'sori, the sound of harbouring masochist tendencies, to mote-mote, the sound of becoming a small-town movie star, Fifty Sounds is a personal dictionary of the Japanese language, recounting her life as an outsider in Japan. Irreverent, humane, witty and wise, Fifty Sounds is an exceptional debut about the quietly revolutionary act of learning, speaking, and living in another language.
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  • Utgivningsdatum: 2021-04-14
  • Mått: 125 x 197 x 24 mm
  • Vikt: 348 g
  • Format: Häftad
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Serie: Fitzcarraldo Editions
  • Antal sidor: 360
  • Förlag: Fitzcarraldo Editions
  • ISBN: 9781913097509
  • Utmärkelser: Short-listed for Edward Stanford Travel Writing Prize 2022 (UK)
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Polly Barton is a Japanese literary translator. Her translations include Where the Wild Ladies Are by Aoko Matsuda, There’s No Such Thing as an Easy Job by Kikuko Tsumura, and Spring Garden by Tomoka Shibasaki. She won the 2019 Fitzcarraldo Editions Essay Prize for Fifty Sounds. She lives in Bristol.

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‘Witty, exuberant, also melancholy, and crowded with intelligence – Fifty Sounds is so much fun to read. Barton has written an essay that is also an argument that is also a prose poem. Let’s call it a slant adventure story, whose hero is equipped only with high spirits, and a ragtag band of phonemes.’—  Rivka Galchen, author of Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch

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