Polly Barton Fifty sounds

a memoir of language, learning, and longing

"Fifty Sounds is a genre-defying meditation on language from an electric new voice. When Polly Barton moved to a remote island in Japan at twenty-one, she did not anticipate the total sensory bombardment: "It is a possession, a bedevilment, a physical takeover." Divided into fifty onomatopoeic Japanese phrases, this elegantly written and deeply introspective memoir recounts her path to grasping the basics and becoming not only a literary translator but fluent in one of the most difficult vernaculars...

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Engels | 350 pagina's | Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W. W. Norton & Company, Inc, New York, NY | 2022

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