(Ebook) Dreams Of Speaking by Gail Jones ISBN 9781448104918, 1448104912

(Ebook) Dreams Of Speaking by Gail Jones ISBN 9781448104918, 1448104912

A vision of Japan as you have never imagined it. A brilliant and moving novel about displacement and belonging by the award-winning author of Sixty Lights and Five Bells.'We must talk, Alice Black, about this world of modern things. This buzzing world.'Alice is entranced by the aesthetics of technology and, in every aeroplane flight, every Xerox machine, every neon sign, sees the poetry of modernity. Mr Sakamoto, a survivor of the atomic bomb, is an expert on Alexander Graham Bell. Like Alice, he is culturally and geographically displaced. The pair forge an unlikely friendship as Mr Sakamoto regales Alice with stories of twentieth-century invention. His own knowledge begins to inform her writing, and these two solitary beings become a mutual support for each other a long way from home.This novel from prize-winning author Gail Jones is distinguished in its honesty and intelligence. From the boundlessness of spacewalking to the frustrating constrictions of one person's daily existence, Dreams Of Speaking paints with grace and skill the experience of needing to belong despite wanting to be alone.