Is That a Fish in Your Ear?

Translation and the Meaning of Everything

by David Bellos

2011 384 pages eng

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 Asteerix cartoons or a foreign head of state. Using translation as his lens, David Bellos shows how much we can lear…