"Friendship." . . "Australian fiction." . . "Englisch." . . "Australians." . . "Australians Japan." . . "Australians France Paris Fiction." . . "Australians Japan Fiction." . . "Australierin" . . "Loneliness Fiction." . . "Australians France Paris." . . "Loneliness." . . "Japaner" . . "Friendship Fiction." . . "Roman." . . "France" . . . . . . . . . "Der traum vom sprechen : roman" . . . . "Fiction" . "Fiction"@en . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "Belletristische Darstellung" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "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. The pair forge an unlikely friendship as Mr Sakamoto regales Alice with stories of twentieth-century invention."@en . "Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)"@en . "Dreams of speaking"@en . "Dreams of speaking" . . . "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."@en . . . . "Roman australien" . "Der Traum vom Sprechen Roman" . . "Japan." . . "Paris" . . "Freundschaft" . . "Älterer Mann" . .