Is That a Fish in Your Ear?: Translation and the Meaning of Everything by David Bellos
Is That a Fish in Your Ear?: Translation and the Meaning of Everything

David Bellos

Is That a Fish in Your Ear?: Translation and the Meaning of Everything

David Bellos

384 pages first pub 2011 (editions)

nonfiction science informative slow-paced
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Funny and surprising on every page, Is That a Fish in Your Ear? offers readers new insight into the mystery of how we come to know what someone else means—whether we wish to understand Astérix cartoons or a foreign head of state. Using translation...

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