Catching Fire: A Translation Diary by Daniel Hahn #joyce What he gets is a

What he gets is a knife to the throat and a furious woman with demands of her own

and playing with the Buzzcocks

An eighth son of an eighth son is born

and illustrated by two of the world's leading natural history illustrators

Beautifully written and lushly illustrated

Catching Fire: A Translation Diary by Daniel Hahn #joyce What he gets is aAn energizing real time journey through the translation of Never Did the Fire and the process of literary translation. In Catching Fire , the translation of Diamela Eltit's Never Did the Fire unfolds in real time as a conversation between works of art, illuminating both in the process. The problems and pleasures of conveying literature into another languagewhat happens when you meet a pun? a double entendre?are met by translator Daniel Hahn's humor,