# Is That a Fish in Your Ear?

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- Authors: [David Bellos](https://www.bookquiver.com/david-bellos)
- Publisher: Penguin
- ISBN: 978-02-4195-430-0
- Pages: 400
- Published: 2012-09-06
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

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