Speaking in Tongues: Curious Expressions from Around the World

Speaking in Tongues: Curious Expressions from Around the World

by EllaFrancesSanders (Author)

Synopsis

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.

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More Information

Format: Hardcover
Pages: 112
Edition: 1
Publisher: Square Peg
Published: 01 Sep 2016

ISBN 10: 1910931268
ISBN 13: 9781910931264
Book Overview: 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

Author Bio
Ella Frances Sanders is a writer out of necessity and an illustrator by accident. She currently lives and works in the city of Bath, UK, without a cat. Her first book, Lost in Translation - An Illustrated Compendium of Untranslatable Words is an international bestseller, and her second book The Illustrated Book of Sayings - Curious Expressions from Around the World was published in September 2016. She can be found at ellafrancessanders.com and various other social media places