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    Polly Barton

    Polly Barton is a writer and literary translator from the Japanese. Her translations include Butter by Asako Yuzuki and Hunchback by Saou Ichikawa. She has published two works of non-fiction, Fifty Sounds and Porn: An Oral History; What Am I, A Deer? is her debut novel.

    Polly Barton

    Polly Barton is a writer and literary translator from the Japanese. Her translations include Butter by Asako Yuzuki and Hunchback by Saou Ichikawa. She has published two works of non-fiction, Fifty Sounds and Porn: An Oral History; What Am I, A Deer? is her debut novel.

    Books by Polly Barton

    • Fifty Sounds: A Memoir of Language, Learning, and Longing

      Polly Barton

      Hardback, 2022

      For anyone who has ever yearned to master a new language, Fifty Sounds is a visionary personal account and an indispensable resource for learning to think beyond your mother tongue.

    • Fifty Sounds: A Memoir of Language, Learning, and Longing

      Polly Barton

      E Book, 2022

      For anyone who has ever yearned to master a new language, Fifty Sounds is a visionary personal account and an indispensable resource for learning to think beyond your mother tongue.

    • Mild Vertigo

      Mieko Kanai, Polly Barton, Kate Zambreno

      Paperback, 2023

      In this intoxicating stream-of-consciousness novel, Mieko Kanai tackles the existential traps of motherhood, marriage, and domestic captivity

    • Mild Vertigo

      Mieko Kanai, Polly Barton, Kate Zambreno

      E Book

      In this intoxicating stream-of-consciousness novel, Mieko Kanai tackles the existential traps of motherhood, marriage, and domestic captivity

    • The Place of Shells

      Mai Ishizawa, Polly Barton

      Paperback, 2025

      Winner of the Akutagawa Prize, a masterful novel about loss and memory in the aftermath of a horrifying ecological disaster

    • The Place of Shells

      Mai Ishizawa, Polly Barton

      E Book

      Winner of the Akutagawa Prize, a masterful novel about loss and memory in the aftermath of a horrifying ecological disaster

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