DREAMS OF SPEAKING

"Alice is entranced by the aesthetics of technology, and in every aeroplane flight, every Xerox machine, every neon sign, she 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. 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."--BOOK JACKET.