A candid memoir of moving to Japan at twenty-one, told through fifty Japanese sound-words on language, longing, and belonging.
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A candid memoir of moving to Japan at twenty-one, told through fifty Japanese sound-words on language, longing, and belonging.
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In this dazzling debut, Polly Barton reflects on her experience of moving to the Japanese island of Sado at the age of twenty-one and on her journey to becoming a literary translator. Written in fifty semi-discrete entries, Fifty Sounds is a personal dictionary of the Japanese language that draws together a variety of cultural reflections - from conformity and being an outsider, to the gendering of Japanese society, and attitudes towards food and the cult of 'deliciousness' - alongside probing i...
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Candid recurring talk of desire, sex, and a fraught cross-cultural romance
Violence & gore
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A car accident and a witnessed death are briefly recounted
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Magic & witchcraft
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Occult / demonology
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Reflections on conformity, gender roles, and outsider life in Japan
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