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Title: Is That a Fish in Your Ear?: Translation and the Meaning of Everything
Author: BELLOS DAVID
Format: PAPERBACK
Publication date: 06/09/2012
Imprint: PENGUIN
Price: $23.00
Publishing status: Active
Is That a Fish in Your Ear? by David Bellos asks- how do we really make ourselves understood to other people? This funny, wise and life-affirming language book shows how, from puns to poetry, news bulletins to the Bible, Asterix to Swedish films, translation is at the heart of everything we do – and makes us who we are.
Selected by The New York Times as one of the 100 Notable Books of 2011
‘A wonderful, witty book … richly original, endlessly fascinating … for anyone interested in words’ Economist, Books of the Year
‘A scintillating bouillabaisse … spiced with good and provocative things’ Literary Review
‘Dazzlingly inventive’ The New York Times
‘Clear and lively … There is nothing quite like it’ Spectator
ISBN: 9780241954300
Weight: 294g
Dimension: 198mm X 129mm
Pages: 400