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What Am I, A Deer?

Polly Barton

  • The debut novel by Polly Barton, bestselling translator of the Waterstones Book of the Year 2024, Butter. 
  • Her non-fiction books, Fifty Sounds and Porn: An Oral History, have both sold more than 10,000 print copies. 
  • Nationwide tour, with festival appearances. 
  • Comps: How Should A Person Be? by Sheila Heti; Perfection by Vincenzo Latronico, tr. Sophie Hughes; Either/Or by Elif Batuman; Big Kiss, Bye-Bye by Claire-Louise Bennett.

  • Classification : General & Literary Fiction
  • Pub Date : MAR 26, 2026
  • Imprint : Fitzcarraldo Editions
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  • Binding : PB
  • ISBN : 9781804272176
  • Price : INR 1,499
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Polly Barton

Polly Barton is a writer and Japanese literary translator. Her translations include Butter by Asako Yuzuki, Hunchback by Saou Ichikawa, Where the Wild Ladies Are by Aoko Matsuda, and There’s No Such Thing as an Easy Job by Kikuko Tsumura. She has published two works of non-fiction, Fifty Sounds, for which she won the 2019 Fitzcarraldo Editions Essay Prize, and Porn: An Oral History. What Am I, A Deer? is her debut novel.

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