Speaking in TonguesSpeaking in Tongues is a book about how language shapes us, written by Nobel and Booker prizewinning author J. M. Coetzee and his Spanish translator, Mariana Dimpulos. This is a book about languages, what languages can and what they cannot do. In this dialogue between a Nobel Laureate and a leading translator, provocative ideas emerge about the evolution of language and the challenge of translation. Language, historically speaking, has always been