Lost in Translation : An Illustrated Compendium of Untranslatable Words

by Ella Frances Sanders

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Format Hardback or Cased Book

ISBN-10 0224100807

ISBN-13 9780224100809

Publisher Vintage Publishing

Imprint Square Peg

Country of Manufacture MY

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Jun 4th, 2015

Print length 112 Pages

Weight 408 grams

Dimensions 17.40 x 19.80 x 1.60 cms

Product Classification: Language: history & general works Translation & interpretation

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Did you know that the Japanese have a word to express the way sunlight filters through the leaves of trees? Or, that there's a Swedish word that means a traveller's particular sense of anticipation before a trip? This book includes a collection full of surprises that will make you savour the elusive, untranslatable words that make up a language.

Did you know that the Japanese have a word to express the way sunlight filters through the leaves of trees?

Or, that there’s a Swedish word that means a traveller’s particular sense of anticipation before a trip?

Lost in Translation, a New York Times bestseller, brings the nuanced beauty of language to life with over 50 beautiful ink illustrations.

The words and definitions range from the lovely, such as goya, the Urdu word to describe the transporting suspension of belief that can occur in good storytelling, to the funny, like the Malay word pisanzapra, which translates as ''the time needed to eat a banana'' .

This is a collection full of surprises that will make you savour the wonderful, elusive, untranslatable words that make up a language.

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