Chakraborty, bestselling author of The Empire of Gold "Kuang follows her award-winning Poppy War trilogy with an engaging fantasy about the magic of language. One of the most brilliant, razor-sharp books I've had the pleasure of reading that isn't just an alternative fantastical history, but an interrogative one one that grabs colonial history and the Industrial Revolution, turns it over, and shakes it out." - S.A. ![]() Can powerful institutions be changed from within, or does revolution always require violence?Ī dark and devastating conclusion that transcends its roots in historical fact to examine brutal truths., "Absolutely phenomenal. When Britain pursues an unjust war with China over silver and opium, Robin must decide. As his studies progress, Robin finds himself caught between Babel and the shadowy Hermes Society, an organization dedicated to stopping imperial expansion. But knowledge obeys power, and as a Chinese boy raised in Britain, Robin realizes serving Babel means betraying his motherland. For Robin, Oxford is a utopia dedicated to the pursuit of knowledge. Silver working-the art of manifesting the meaning lost in translation using enchanted silver bars-has made the British unparalleled in power, as its knowledge serves the Empire's quest for colonization. Babel is the world's center for translation and, more importantly, magic. There, he trains for years in Latin, Ancient Greek, and Chinese, all in preparation for the day he'll enroll in Oxford University's prestigious Royal Institute of Translation-also known as Babel. Robin Swift, orphaned by cholera in Canton, is brought to London by the mysterious Professor Lovell. ![]() ![]() Traduttore, traditore: An act of translation is always an act of betrayal. Norrell that grapples with student revolutions, colonial resistance, and the use of language and translation as the dominating tool of the British empire. Kuang comes Babel, a thematic response to The Secret History and a tonal retort to Jonathan Strange & Mr.
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