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

R. F. Kuang

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

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Babel won the #2 Sunday Times and #1 New York Times bestseller rankings. Babel is an alternate history fantasy novel set in the University of Oxford. The story follows a group of translators who discover the dangerous power of language and knowledge, and must decide whether to challenge the colonial empire that controls the translation of words and texts across the world. As they uncover secrets about how language itself can be weaponized, they become entangled in a revolution that questions the very foundations of power, imperialism, and the cost of progress.

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Publisher
Harper Voyager
Year
2022
ISBN-13
9780008501839
Genre
FantasyFiction
Topics
Colonialism and empireLanguage and translationRevolution and resistance

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