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23 ago 2022 · 231,467 ratings44,462 reviews. Goodreads Choice Award. Nominee for Best Fantasy (2022) From award-winning author R. F. Kuang comes Babel, a historical fantasy epic that grapples with student revolutions, colonial resistance, and the use of language and translation as the dominating tool of the British Empire.
Babel: Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution is a 2022 novel of speculative fiction by R. F. Kuang. It debuted at the first spot on The New York Times Best Seller list, and won Blackwell's Books of the Year for Fiction in 2022 and the 2022 Nebula Award for Best Novel.
BABEL is a stark picture of the cruelty of empire, a distillation of dark academia, and a riveting blend of fantasy and historical fiction – a monumental achievement’ Samantha Shannon, author of THE PRIORY OF THE ORANGE TREE. R.F. Kuang’s book ‘Babel’ was a New York Times bestseller w/c 11-09-2022.
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.
Oxford, 1836. La città delle guglie sognanti. Il centro di tutta la conoscenza e l’innovazione del mondo. Al suo cuore c’è Babel, il prestigioso Royal Institute of Translation dell’Università di Oxford. La torre da cui sgorga tutto il potere dell’impero.
Babel. Una storia arcana è un libro di R. F. Kuang pubblicato da Mondadori nella collana Oscar fantastica edges: acquista su IBS a 24.00€!
30 ago 2023 · Young adult e dark academia trovano spazio in questo romanzo nella Oxford del 1836, quando l’Inghilterra è uno dei più grandi e potenti imperi al mondo e conoscere le lingue delle colonie è il mezzo per mantenere il dominio su nazioni e persone. La recensione di Alessandro Tacchino. 30 ago 2023.
