Lost in Translation: An Illustrated Compendium of Untranslatable Words
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- Publisher VINTAGE BOOKS
- ISBN13 9780224100809
- ISBN10 0224100807
- Type BOOK
- Pages 112
- Published 2015
- Language English
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TranslatologyLost in Translation: An Illustrated Compendium of Untranslatable Words
Editorial VINTAGE BOOKS
Do you want to pick it up at the bookstore?
Mainland Spain
Book details
"...a collection of words you never knew you needed before" (Huffington Post)
"Charming illustrations and sheer linguistic delight" (Maria Popova Brainpicker)
"words you never knew you needed but now can?t live without" (Saga Magazine)
"...a fantastic collection of words without English counterparts" (Entertainment Weekly)
"? will make you think, laugh and discover situations you never knew there was a word for" (ELLE Canada)
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.