{"product_id":"9780224100809","title":"Lost in Translation : An Illustrated Compendium of Untranslatable Words","description":"\u003cp\u003e Author(s): Sanders, Ella Frances \u003cbr\u003e Binding: Hardback, \u003cbr\u003e Date of Publication: 04\/06\/2015,\u003cbr\u003e Pagination: 112 pages, Full colour throughout,\u003cbr\u003e ISBN13\\EAN\\SKU: 9780224100809,\u003cbr\u003e Description: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDid 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' .\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is a collection full of surprises that will make you savour the wonderful, elusive, untranslatable words that make up a language.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Griffin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43697650860076,"sku":"9780224100809","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0379\/1365\/7388\/files\/9780224100809.jpg?v=1722597946","url":"https:\/\/www.griffinbooksonline.co.uk\/products\/9780224100809","provider":"Griffin Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}