Fifty Sounds - Polly Barton Publication Date:14/04/2021 After years missing at sea

After years missing at sea

strangely familiar

as he's walking to give the eulogy

foreboding

A bestseller in Korea

Fifty Sounds - Polly Barton Publication Date:14/04/2021 After years missing at seaWhy 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