Lost in Translation
  • Published: 4 June 2015
  • ISBN: 9781473557574
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 112
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Lost in Translation

An Illustrated Compendium of Untranslatable Words

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Hardback
1 Jun 2015
EBook
4 Jun 2015
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A gorgeous illustrated compendium of untranslatable words from around the world.

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.
  • Published: 4 June 2015
  • ISBN: 9781473557574
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 112
Categories:

About the author

Ella Frances Sanders

Ella Frances Sanders is a New York Times and internationally best-selling author and illustrator of four books, including Lost in Translation and Speaking in Tongues. She lives in a quiet slice of Scotland and spends a reasonable amount of time following patches of sunlight around the house.

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Praise for Lost in Translation

Charming illustrations and sheer linguistic delight

Maria Popova, Brainpicker

words you never knew you needed but now can’t live without

Saga Magazine

...a collection of words you never knew you needed before

Huffington Post

...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
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