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Is this book here to publicly recognise that it is because of translators that the world communicates? It would seem so. Jost Zetzche and Nataly Kelly paint a vivid canvas of just how many aspects of everyday life are profoundly affected by translation. Well researched and presented, this book reveals the extent to which the products we use and the freedoms and pleasures we enjoy are made possible by translation. Above and beyond world politics and...
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"Fifty Sounds is a genre-defying meditation on language from an electric new voice. When Polly Barton moved to a remote island in Japan at twenty-one, she did not anticipate the total sensory bombardment: "It is a possession, a bedevilment, a physical takeover." Divided into fifty onomatopoeic Japanese phrases, this elegantly written and deeply introspective memoir recounts her path to grasping the basics and becoming not only a literary translator...
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