Fifty Sounds by Polly Barton

Fifty Sounds by Polly BartonFifty 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,

the college-aged son of a more prosperous childhood friend and

When she steps outside her calendar and is accidentally thrown into the generous bosom of the West Moonah Women's Choir

even if it gets him into trouble

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Though she has risen to the position of lady-in-waiting

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