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02827aom a2200337 i 4500 001 E4BE8A8EBCE111EEA22CC97A4BECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20240127010046 008 220315t20222022nyu||| | ||eng d 020 $a 0008501815 020 $a 9780008501815 020 $a 0063021420 020 $a 9780063021426 040 $d SILO 100 1 $a Kuang, R. F. $q (Rebecca F.). 245 10 $a Babel : $b or the necessity of violence : an arcane history of the Oxford Translators' Revolution [book club kit] / $c R.F. Kuang. 246 14 $a Babel : $b an arcane history 250 $a First edition. 264 1 $a New York, NY : $b Harper Voyager, $c 2022. 300 $a 6 books (544 pages each) ; $c 24 cm $a 1 discussion sheet ; $c 8.5 x 11 in ; $a 1 notebook (80 pages) ; $c 22 x 14 cm ; $a 6 books (544 pages each) ; $c 24 cm 300 $a xii, 544 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 24 cm 520 $a "From 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?"--Amazon.com. 650 0 $a Translating and interpreting $x Fiction. 650 0 $a Magic $x Fiction. 650 0 $a Imperialism $x Fiction. $x Fiction. 650 0 $a Anti-imperialist movements $x Fiction. 651 0 $a China $x Fiction. $z Great Britain $x Fiction. 651 0 $a Great Britain $x Fiction. $z China $x Fiction. 941 $a 1 952 $l LAPH975 $d 20240127012442.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=E4BE8A8EBCE111EEA22CC97A4BECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search