Lost In Translation Av Ella Frances Sanders

<p><b>Did you know</b> that the Japanese have a word to express the way sunlight filters through the leaves of trees? <br><br>Or, that there’s a Swedish word that means a traveller’s particular sense of anticipation before a trip? <br><br><b><i>Lost in Translation</i>, a <i>New York Times</i> bestseller, brings the nuanced beauty of language to life with over 50 beautiful ink illustrations</b>. <br><br>The words and definitions range from the lovely, such as <i>goya,</i> the Urdu word to describe the transporting suspension of belief that can occur in good storytelling, to the funny, like the Malay word <i>pisanzapra, </i>which translates as ''the time needed to eat a banana'' .<br><br>This is a collection full of surprises that will make you savour the <b>wonderful, elusive, untranslatable words</b> that make up a language.</p>