Babel

or the necessity of violence ; an arcane history of the Oxford Translator's Revolution

Belletristik

• FS.E : Fremdsprachige Schriften : Einzelne Sprachen : Englische Schriften
• DR.H : Belletristik : Romane, Erzählungen und Novellen : Historische Romane
• DR.F : Belletristik : Romane, Erzählungen und Novellen : Fantasyromane, Phantastische Romane

Verfasser:
Kuang, R. F.

Verfasser Angabe:
R. F. Kuang

Sprache:
Englisch

• China
• Englisch
• Rassismus
• Wissen
• Kolonialismus
• Geschichte
• Student
• Waisenkind
• Großbritannien
• Phantastische Literatur
• Magie

Verlag:
Harper Collins

Erscheinungsort:
London

Jahr:
2022

Umfang:
546 S.

Fußnote:
Text: Englisch

ISBN:
978-0-00-850182-2

Interessenskreise:
BookTok

Inhalt:
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...

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