Fifty Sounds

Autorentext

Polly Barton is a translator of Japanese literature and non-fiction. Born in 1984, and raised in west London, she studied philosophy at Cambridge before travelling with the JET Programme to teach English in Sado Island, Japan. Her translations include Spring Garden by Tomoka Shibasaki (Pushkin Press, 2017) and Where the Wild Ladies Are by Aoko Matsuda (Tilted Axis Press, 2020). She won the 2019 Fitzcarraldo Editions Essay Prize for Fifty Sounds.

Klappentext

A paean to the transformative powers of language-learning from the winner of the 2019 Fitzcarraldo Editions Essay Prize.

Zusammenfassung
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.