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02333aam a2200409 i 4500 001 56ADD57CA4EE11ECAB2946E12AECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20220316010009 008 211210t20222021nyu b 000 0aeng 010 $a 2021056383 020 $a 1324091312 020 $a 9781324091318 035 $a (OCoLC)1252845100 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d IOU $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a e-uk-en 082 00 $a 495.68/02092 $2 23/eng/20220124 100 1 $a Barton, Polly $c (Translator), $e author. 245 10 $a Fifty sounds : $b a memoir of language, learning, and longing / $c Polly Barton. 246 30 $a Memoir of language, learning, and longing 250 $a First American edition. 264 1 $a New York, NY : $b Liveright Publishing Corporation, $c 2022. 300 $a xxviii, 350 pages ; $c 22 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references. 520 $a "Fifty Sounds is a genre-defying meditation on language from an electric new voice. When Polly Barton moved to a remote island in Japan at twenty-one, she did not anticipate the total sensory bombardment: "It is a possession, a bedevilment, a physical takeover." Divided into fifty onomatopoeic Japanese phrases, this elegantly written and deeply introspective memoir recounts her path to grasping the basics and becoming not only a literary translator but fluent in one of the most difficult vernaculars in the world. From min-min, the sound of air screaming, to hi'sori, the sound of harboring masochist tendencies, Barton renders these foreign sounds to reflect on the meaning of being an outsider, cultural conformity, and even the transformative philosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein. A classic in the making, Fifty Sounds unearths the distinctly human act of learning to communicate and think in a new way"-- $c Provided by publisher. 600 10 $a Barton, Polly $c (Translator) 650 0 $a Translating and interpreting. 650 0 $a Japanese language. 650 0 $a Translators $z England $v Biography. 655 7 $a Autobiographies. $2 lcgft 941 $a 4 952 $l ALPE516 $d 20240417015942.0 952 $l BOPG851 $d 20231010033309.0 952 $l TYPH572 $d 20220630013057.0 952 $l BAPH771 $d 20220316010116.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=56ADD57CA4EE11ECAB2946E12AECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b IOUInitiate Another SILO Locator Search