What does it mean to lose yourself - and is that something you should be aiming for?With astonishing existential acuity, Polly Barton's formidable debut novel renders the paradoxes of modern life in all its complexity, in deliriously self-conscious prose that is at once propulsive, titillating and bitingly funny.

Autorentext

Polly Barton is a writer and Japanese literary translator. Her translations include Butter* by Asako Yuzuki, Hunchback* by Saou Ichikawa, Where the Wild Ladies Are* by Aoko Matsuda, and There's No Such Thing as an Easy Job* by Kikuko Tsumura. She has published two works of non-fiction, Fifty Sounds*, for which she won the 2019 Fitzcarraldo Editions Essay Prize, and Porn: An Oral History*. What Am I, A Deer?* is her debut novel.