"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."—Christine Keanneally, New Scientist
The debate began nearly a century ago: where does language come from, is it an artifact of our culture, or written in our very DNA? In recent years, the leading linguists have seemingly settled the issue—all language is fundamentally the same, and does not shape our thinking in any significant way. Guy Deutscher says they're wrong.

From Homer to Darwin, from Yale to the Amazon, and through a strange and dazzling history of the color blue, Deutscher argues that our mother tongues do indeed shape our experience of the world. Audacious, delightful, and provocative, Through the Language Glass is a classic of intellectual discovery.