Rebecca F. Kuang
From award-winning author R.F. Kuang comes Babel — a soaring, incendiary dark-academia fantasy about language, translation, power and the violence of empire. A Sunday Times bestseller and instant modern classic.
1828. Robin Swift, orphaned by cholera in Canton, is brought to London by the enigmatic Professor Lovell and trained for years in Latin, Greek and Chinese — all in preparation for Oxford University's prestigious Royal Institute of Translation, known as Babel. Babel is the world's centre of translation and, more importantly, of silver-working: the magic of harnessing meaning lost between languages, the very power that has made the British Empire unstoppable.
For Robin, Oxford is a dream of pure knowledge. But knowledge serves power, and as a Chinese boy raised in Britain, he comes to see that serving Babel means betraying his homeland. Caught between the institute and the shadowy, anti-colonial Hermes Society, Robin must decide how far he is willing to go — and whether powerful institutions can ever be changed from within, or whether revolution always demands violence.
For fans of dark academia, literary fantasy and morally weighty storytelling.
Paperback · Dark-academia fantasy · In stock at Book Tanks, shipped across Malaysia.
Book details
Author: Rebecca F. Kuang (R.F. Kuang)
ISBN: 9780063021433
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Genre: Dark-academia fantasy
Babel by R.F. Kuang — brand new, 100% original, in stock at Book Tanks and shipped fast across Malaysia.
