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Is That a Fish in Your Ear? by David Bellos

Is That a Fish in Your Ear?

Translation and the Meaning of Everything

by David Bellos
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  • Oct 11, 2011, 384 pages
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  • Oct 2012, 384 pages
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Gentle gem.

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Excerpted from Is That a Fish in Your Ear? by David Bellos. Copyright © 2011 by David Bellos. Excerpted by permission of Faber and Faber. All rights reserved. No part of this excerpt may be reproduced or reprinted without permission in writing from the publisher.

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