Is That a Fish in Your Ear?

Please read David Bellos's brilliant book', Michael Hofmann, Guardian 'In his marvellous study of the nature of translation...[David Bellos] has set out to make it fun... Essential reading for anyone with even a vague interest in language and translation - in short, it is a triumph', Shaun Whiteside, Independent 'A dazzyingly inventive book', Adam Thirlwell, New York Times 'Is That A Fish In Your Ear? is spiced with good and provocative things. At once erudite and unpretentious...[it is a] scintillating bouillabaisse', Frederic Raphael, Literary Review