Fifty Sounds
by
Polly Barton
Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
1913097501
ISBN-13
9781913097509
Publisher
Fitzcarraldo Editions
Imprint
Fitzcarraldo Editions
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Apr 14th, 2021
Print length
360 Pages
Weight
348 grams
Dimensions
19.70 x 12.70 x 2.40 cms
Product Classification:
Literary essaysEssays
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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.
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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