Name: Babel: Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators'Revolution
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Author: R. F. Kuang
ISBN: 9780063021426

portada Babel: Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators'Revolution

Type

Physical Book

Author

R. F. Kuang

Publisher

Harper Voyager

Language

English

Pages

560

Format

Hardcover

Dimensions

23.5 x 16.0 x 4.5 cm

Weight

0.72 kg.

ISBN13

9780063021426

Synopsis "Babel: Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators'Revolution"

Instant #1 New York Times Bestseller from the author of The Poppy War "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." -- Shannon Chakraborty, bestselling author of The City of BrassFrom award-winning author R. F. Kuang comes Babel, a thematic response to The Secret History and a tonal retort to Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell that grapples with student revolutions, colonial resistance, and the use of language and translation as the dominating tool of the British empire.Traduttore, traditore: An act of translation is always an act of betrayal.1828. Robin Swift, orphaned by cholera in Canton, is brought to London by the mysterious Professor Lovell. 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.Babel is the world's center for translation and, more importantly, magic. 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.For Robin, Oxford is a utopia dedicated to the pursuit of knowledge. But knowledge obeys power, and as a Chinese boy raised in Britain, Robin realizes serving Babel means betraying his motherland. As his studies progress, Robin finds himself caught between Babel and the shadowy Hermes Society, an organization dedicated to stopping imperial expansion. When Britain pursues an unjust war with China over silver and opium, Robin must decide...Can powerful institutions be changed from within, or does revolution always require violence?

R. F. Kuang

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Escritora y traductora chino-estadounidense, Rebecca F. Kuang nació en Cantón, China, el 29 de mayo de 1996. A los cuatro años se mudó con sus padres a Estados Unidos.

Kuang estudió Historia en la Georgetown University, formándose más adelante en Estudios Chinos y Estudios Chinos Contemporáneos en Cambridge y Oxford y doctorándose en Lenguas y Literaturas de Asia Oriental en la Universidad de Yale.

En su faceta como escritora Kuang es conocida por sus novelas de fantasía, gracias a las cuales ha sido nominada a prestigiosos premios del género como el Hugo, el Nebula, el Locus o el World Fantasy. Entre su producción se cuentan la trilogía La Guerra de la Amapola, Babel (Premio Nebula 2022) y Amarilla.

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