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Babel by R. F. Kuang
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Babel by R. F. Kuang is a captivating 19th-century fantasy where language and magic intersect. A scholar must confront imperialism, identity, and revolution in a world where power is built on words.
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560 pages
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Babel by R. F. Kuang is an absolute must-read for those searching for a book that truly challenges their mind while completely immersing them in a richly imagined world.
open the first pages and You're transported to an alternate Oxford in the 1830s, specifically the Royal Institute of Translation, known as Babel. In this world, the power of language is literal. You'll follow Robin Swift, an orphan brought from Canton to study at Babel, believing it's a paradise of knowledge. But as he uncovers the institution's true purpose and its ties to British colonial expansion, he's forced to confront difficult questions.
Goodreads Choice Award - Nominee for Readers' Favorite Fantasy (2022)
"Babel has earned tremendous praise and deserves all of it. It's Philip Pullman's The Golden Compass by way of N.K. Jemisin's The Fifth Season: inventive and engaging, passionate and precise. Kuang is fiercely disciplined even when she's playful and experimental … Like the silver bars at its heart-like empires and academic institutions both-Babel derives its power from sustaining a contradiction, from trying to hold in your head both love and hatred for the charming thing that sustains itself by devouring you." - New York Times Book Review
"A fantastical takedown of 19th-century imperialism that's as meaty as its title. R.F. Kuang proved her prowess at blending history and magic with her debut series, The Poppy War, and she's done it once again in this sweeping novel that blends historical fantasy and dark academia…If, as Babel suggests, words contain magic, then Kuang has written something spellbinding." - Oprah Daily
"Absolutely phenomenal. 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. Chakraborty, bestselling author of The City of Brass
"A fantastically made work, moving and enraging by turns, with an ending to blow down walls." - The Guardian
"Kuang follows her award-winning Poppy War trilogy with an engaging fantasy about the magic of language. Her richly descriptive stand-alone novel about an ever-expanding, alternate-world empire powered by magically enhanced silver talismans scrutinizes linguistics, history, politics, and the social customs of Victorian-era Great Britain." - Booklist (starred review)
"The true magic of Kuang's novel lies in its ability to be both rigorously academic and consistently welcoming to the reader, making translation on the page feel as enchanting and powerful as any effects it can achieve with the aid of silver." - Oxford Review of Books
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