DREAMS OF SPEAKING

the long version

"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.