BABEL - AN ARCANE HISTORY - KUANG

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Editorial	HARPER COLLINS
Edad	Adultos
Idioma	Inglés Internacional
Nivel	.
Autor	KUANG REBECCA F.
ISBN	9780063021426
Peso ( kg )	0,719
Tipo	Soporte Físico
Año de edición	2022
Formato	TAPA DURA
Sinopsis	BABEL - OR THE NECESSITY OF VIOLENCE: AN ARCANE HISTORY OF THE OXFORD TRANSLATORS' REVOLUTION 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? REBECCA F.KUANG Rebecca F. Kuang is the 1 New York Times bestselling and Hugo, Nebula, Locus, and World Fantasy Award nominated author of Babel, the Poppy War trilogy, and the forthcoming Yellowface. She is a Marshall Scholar, translator, and 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. Edad recomendada: Adultos KUANG REBECCA F. Es una escritora de fantasía chino-estadounidense. Su primera novela, The Poppy War, se publicó en 2018, seguida de las secuelas The Dragon Republic en 2019 y The Burning God en 2020. Kuang publicó una novela independiente, Babel, or the Necessity of Violence, en 2022
Cantidad de páginas	560
Fecha Ingreso	12-02-2025