Babel: Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translatorsā Revolution
Babel: Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translatorsā Revolution
āOne for Philip Pullman fansā
THE TIMES
āThis one is an automatic buyā
GLAMOUR
āAmbitious, sweeping and epicā
EVENING STANDARD
āRazor-sharpā
DAILY MAIL
āAn ingenious fantasy about empireā
GUARDIAN
'Literary super-stardom doesn't seem too far out of her reach now'
THE HERALD
Traduttore, traditore: An act of translation is always an act of betrayal.
Oxford, 1836.
The city of dreaming spires.
It is the centre of all knowledge and progress in the world.
And at its centre is Babel, the Royal Institute of Translation. The tower from which all the power of the Empire flows.
Orphaned in Canton and brought to England by a mysterious guardian, Babel seemed like paradise to Robin Swift.
Until it became a prisonā¦
But can a student stand against an empire?
An incendiary new novel from award-winning author R.F. Kuang about the power of language, the violence of colonialism, and the sacrifices of resistance.
'A masterpiece that resonates with power and knowledge. BABEL is a stark picture of the cruelty of empire, a distillation of dark academia, and a riveting blend of fantasy and historical fiction ā a monumental achievementā
Samantha Shannon, author of THE PRIORY OF THE ORANGE TREE
R.F. Kuangās book āBabelā was a New York Times bestseller w/c 11-09-2022.
Babel: Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translatorsā Revolution
āOne for Philip Pullman fansā
THE TIMES
āThis one is an automatic buyā
GLAMOUR
āAmbitious, sweeping and epicā
EVENING STANDARD
āRazor-sharpā
DAILY MAIL
āAn ingenious fantasy about empireā
GUARDIAN
'Literary super-stardom doesn't seem too far out of her reach now'
THE HERALD
Traduttore, traditore: An act of translation is always an act of betrayal.
Oxford, 1836.
The city of dreaming spires.
It is the centre of all knowledge and progress in the world.
And at its centre is Babel, the Royal Institute of Translation. The tower from which all the power of the Empire flows.
Orphaned in Canton and brought to England by a mysterious guardian, Babel seemed like paradise to Robin Swift.
Until it became a prisonā¦
But can a student stand against an empire?
An incendiary new novel from award-winning author R.F. Kuang about the power of language, the violence of colonialism, and the sacrifices of resistance.
'A masterpiece that resonates with power and knowledge. BABEL is a stark picture of the cruelty of empire, a distillation of dark academia, and a riveting blend of fantasy and historical fiction ā a monumental achievementā
Samantha Shannon, author of THE PRIORY OF THE ORANGE TREE
R.F. Kuangās book āBabelā was a New York Times bestseller w/c 11-09-2022.
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āOne for Philip Pullman fansā
THE TIMES
āThis one is an automatic buyā
GLAMOUR
āAmbitious, sweeping and epicā
EVENING STANDARD
āRazor-sharpā
DAILY MAIL
āAn ingenious fantasy about empireā
GUARDIAN
'Literary super-stardom doesn't seem too far out of her reach now'
THE HERALD
Traduttore, traditore: An act of translation is always an act of betrayal.
Oxford, 1836.
The city of dreaming spires.
It is the centre of all knowledge and progress in the world.
And at its centre is Babel, the Royal Institute of Translation. The tower from which all the power of the Empire flows.
Orphaned in Canton and brought to England by a mysterious guardian, Babel seemed like paradise to Robin Swift.
Until it became a prisonā¦
But can a student stand against an empire?
An incendiary new novel from award-winning author R.F. Kuang about the power of language, the violence of colonialism, and the sacrifices of resistance.
'A masterpiece that resonates with power and knowledge. BABEL is a stark picture of the cruelty of empire, a distillation of dark academia, and a riveting blend of fantasy and historical fiction ā a monumental achievementā
Samantha Shannon, author of THE PRIORY OF THE ORANGE TREE
R.F. Kuangās book āBabelā was a New York Times bestseller w/c 11-09-2022.
