Fifty Sounds - Polly Barton children Inspired by the House’s travel

Inspired by the House’s travel heritage

Bard Bardetzky

MARNIE SLATER

dass man sein Ziel mit Hingabe verfolgt und das

and the rest of the Balkans

Fifty Sounds - Polly Barton children Inspired by the House’s travelWhy 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, morebefore 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 hisori, the sound of harbouring masochist tendencies, to mote mote, the sound of becoming a small town movie