BABEL
I1828. 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?
Traduttore, traditore: An act of translation is always an act of betrayal.
REBECCA KUANG
Rebecca F. Kuang is the 1 New York Times and 1 Sunday Times bestselling author of the Poppy War trilogy, Babel: An Arcane History, and Yellowface. Her work has won the Nebula, Locus, Crawford, and British Book Awards. A Marshall Scholar, she has an MPhil in Chinese Studies from Cambridge and an MSc in Contemporary Chinese Studies from Oxford. She is now pursuing a PhD in East Asian Languages and Literatures at Yale, where she studies diaspora, contemporary Sinophone literature, and Asian American literature.
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KUANG REBECCA F.
Rebecca F. Kuang nació el 29 de mayo de 1996 en Cantón, China, y emigró a Estados Unidos con su familia a los cuatro años. Estudió Historia en la Universidad de Georgetown y obtuvo títulos de posgrado en Sinología en Cambridge y Oxford, además de doctorarse en Lenguas y Literaturas de Asia Oriental en Yale. Es autora de la trilogía La Guerra de la Amapola, compuesta por The Poppy War, The Dragon Republic y The Burning God. En 2022 publicó Babel, que ganó el Premio Nebula, y en 2023 lanzó Yellowface, una novela satírica. Su obra se caracteriza por explorar temas como el colonialismo, la identidad y el trauma histórico, y ha sido reconocida con múltiples premios en el ámbito de la fantasía y la ficción especulativa.
