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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