At one level, translation is literally "impossible." Books are written for people who speak a common language, and have a common cultural context. No matter how

At one level, translation is literally "impossible." Books are written for people who speak a common language, and have a common cultural context. No matter how "accurately" the individual words (or broader meanings, which is different) are translated, there just isn't a 1:1 mapping to another culture, place, and time.