Guy Deutscher’s new book, THROUGH THE LANGUAGE GLASS, is now published by Random House on the Heinemann imprint and is one of the most reviewed books of the week! Glowing praise comes from the Sunday Times, Spectator, Observer, Guardian, New Scientist, Financial Times and on Popularscience.co.uk.
Sam Leith writes in the Sunday Times:
“this fabulously interesting book describes an area of intellectual history replete with brilliant leaps of intuition and crazy dead ends. Guy Deutscher, who combines enthusiasm with scholarly pugnacity…is a vigorous and engaging guide to it…THROUGH THE LANGUAGE GLASS is…a remarkably rich, provocative and intelligent work of pop science.”
Christine Keaneally writes in the New Scientist:
“THROUGH THE LANGUAGE GLASS [is] a book so robustly researched and wonderfully told that it is hard to put down…Deutscher…brings together more than a century’s worth of captivating characters, incidents and experiments that illuminate the relationship between words and mind…[He] makes a convincing case for the influence of language on thought, and in doing so he reveals as much about the way colour words shape our perception as about the way that scientific dogma and fashion can blind us.”
You can find Guy Deutscher’s interview in the Observer here.
So far, foreign rights to THROUGH THE LANGUAGE GLASS have sold in Germany (C H Beck), Spain (Ariel) and Israel (Xargol). The US publisher is Metropolitan books and will publish their edition on 31st August 2010.
THROUGH THE LANGUAGE GLASS is a brilliant and provocative exploration of how the cultures we live in affect not just the languages we speak but how we think of the world around us. Stephen Fry calls it ‘[a] marvellous and surprising book which left me breathless and dizzy with delight.’ We are hoping that many more foreign publishers will feel the same way as we do about this exceptional, entertaining, mind-bending book!
