Fifty Sounds - Polly Barton Publication Date:14/04/2021 unsettling thriller' The i Paper'I

unsettling thriller' The i Paper'I have never read a book like it

After years missing at sea

A bestseller in Korea

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Fifty Sounds - Polly Barton Publication Date:14/04/2021 unsettling thriller' The i Paper'IWhy 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