{"product_id":"is-that-a-fish-in-your-ear-9780241954300","title":"Is That a Fish in Your Ear","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHow do we really make ourselves understood to other people? This 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the guise of a book about translation this is a richly original cultural history ... A book for anyone interested in words, language and cultural anthropology. Mr Bellos's fascination with his subject is itself endlessly fascinating * The Economist *\u003cbr\u003eFor anyone with a passing interest in language this work is enthralling ... A wonderful celebration of the sheer diversity of language and the place it occupies in human endeavour. Conducted by a man who clearly knows his stuff, it is a whirlwind tour round the highways and byways of translation in all its glorious forms, from literary fiction to car repair manuals, from the Nuremberg trials to decoding at Bletchley Park * The Scotsman *\u003cbr\u003eBellos has numerous paradoxes, anecdotes and witty solutions ... his insights are thought provoking, paradoxical and a brilliant exposition of mankind's attempts to deal with the Babel of global communication -- Michael Binyon * The Times *\u003cbr\u003e[A] witty, erudite exploration...[Bellos] delights in [translation's] chequered past and its contemporary ubiquity...He would like us to do more of it. With the encouragement of this book, we might even begin to enjoy it -- Maureen Freely * Sunday Telegraph *\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eIs That A Fish In Your Ear? \u003c\/i\u003eis spiced with good and provocative things. At once erudite and unpretentious...[it is a] scintillating \u003ci\u003ebouillabaisse\u003c\/i\u003e -- Frederic Raphael * Literary Review *\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eIs That A Fish in Your Ear?\u003c\/i\u003e by David Bellos (father of Alex of \u003ci\u003eNumberland\u003c\/i\u003e fame) is a fascinating book on the world of translation that might well be this year's \u003ci\u003eJust My Type\u003c\/i\u003e -- Jonathan Ruppin, Foyles Booskhop\u003cbr\u003eSelected by \u003ci\u003eThe Times'\u003c\/i\u003e 'Daily Universal Register' as a 'Try This' Book * The Times *\u003cbr\u003eA fascinating...very readable study of the mysterious art and business of translation...Bellos asks big questions...and comes up with often surprising answers...sparky, thought-provoking * Nigeness *\u003cbr\u003eForget the fish-it's David Bellos you want in your ear when the talk is about translation. Bellos dispels many of the gloomy truisms of the trade and reminds us what an infinitely flexible instrument the English language (or any language) is. Sparkling, independent-minded analysis of everything from Nabokov's insecurities to Google Translate's felicities fuels a tender-even romantic-account of our relationship with words. -- —NATASHA WIMMER, translator of Roberto Bolaño’s Savage Detectives and 2666\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eIs That a Fish in Your Ear?\u003c\/i\u003e offers a lively survey of translating puns and poetry, cartoons and legislation, subtitles, news bulletins and the Bible -- Matthew Reisz * Times Higher Education Supplement *\u003cbr\u003ePlease read David Bellos's brilliant book -- Michael Hofmann * Guardian *\u003cbr\u003eA clear and lively survey...This book fulfils a real need; there is nothing quite like it. -- Robert Chandler * Spectator *\u003cbr\u003eIn 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 *\u003cbr\u003eA dazzyingly inventive book -- Adam Thirlwell * New York Times *\u003cbr\u003eWitty and perceptive...stimulating, lucid, ultimately cheering -- Theo Dorgan * Irish Times *\u003cbr\u003eSuperbly smart, supremely shrewd -- Carlin Romano * The Chronicle Review *\u003cbr\u003eSelected as a National Book Critics' Circle Award Criticism Finalist 2011 * NBCC *","brand":"Penguin Books Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48733372744023,"sku":"9780241954300","price":10.44,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780241954300.jpg?v=1719999960","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/is-that-a-fish-in-your-ear-9780241954300","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}