Speaking in Tongues

Curious Expressions from Around the World

Ella Frances Sanders author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Vintage Publishing

Published:1st Sep '16

£12.99

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Speaking in Tongues cover

From the author of the bestselling Lost in Translation (22,000 copies sold in UK edition), an exquisite illustrated compendium of not quite translatable sayings from across the globe

Ever feel like you are pedalling in the choucroute? Been caught with your beard in the mailbox again? Or maybe you just wish everyone would stop ironing your head? This book brings the weird, wonderful and surprising nuanced beauty of language to life with over fifty watercolour and ink illustrations.

Ever feel like you are pedalling in the choucroute? Been caught with your beard in the mailbox again? Or maybe you just wish everyone would stop ironing your head?

Speaking in Tongues brings the weird, wonderful and surprising nuanced beauty of language to life with over fifty gorgeous watercolour and ink illustrations.

Here you will find the perfect romantic expression, such as the Spanish tu eres mi media naranja, or 'you are the love of my life, my soulmate', and the bizarre, including dancing bears and broken pots, feeding donkeys sponge cake, a head full of crickets, and clouds and radishes. All encourage new ways of thinking about the world around us, and breathe magnificent life into the everyday.

These phrases from across the world are ageless and endlessly enchanting, passed down through generations. Now they are yours.

ISBN: 9781910931264

Dimensions: 200mm x 174mm x 16mm

Weight: 363g

112 pages