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03103aam a22004095a 4500 001 454B6F80940511EE938C1F5A49ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20231206010040 006 m o d 007 cr cn||||||||| 008 230313s2022 xxu es 000 1 eng d 020 $a 0063021447 020 $a 9780063021440 028 42 $a MWT15762248 040 $a Midwest $e rda $d SILO 082 04 $a 813/.6 $2 23/eng/20220819 100 1 $a Kuang, R. F. $q (Rebecca F.), $e author. 245 10 $a Babel : $b or the necessity of violence : an arcane history of the Oxford Translators' revolution $h [electronic resource] / $c R. F. Kuang. 246 3 $a Babel : $b an arcane history 264 1 $a [United States] : $b Harper Voyager, $c 2022. 300 $a 1 online resource 506 $a Digital content provided by hoopla. 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? 538 $a Mode of access: World Wide Web. 650 0 $a Translating and interpreting $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Magic $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Imperialism $x Moral and ethical aspects $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Anti-imperialist movements $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Electronic books. 651 0 $a China $x Foreign relations $z Great Britain $v Fiction. 651 0 $a Great Britain $x Foreign relations $z China $v Fiction. 710 2 $a hoopla digital. 856 40 $u https://www.hoopladigital.com/title/14724715?utm_source=MARC $z Instantly available on hoopla. 856 42 $z Cover image $u https://d2snwnmzyr8jue.cloudfront.net/hpc_9780063021440_180.jpeg 941 $a 1 952 $l GFPE771 $d 20231206012349.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=454B6F80940511EE938C1F5A49ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search