![]() ![]() She folds history lessons into the story, illuminating everything from the Poor Laws to the Luddites and back again. They realize the whole system is built on the extraction of resources and exploitation of people, and they are pushed into doing something about it. Robin and the three other teens in his cohort start out in love with all that the college has to offer. Without the translators who create it – the process has to do with the resonance between similar words in different languages – several different kinds of hell will break loose and the Empire will likely fall. What comes out is the silver work (read: magic) that the British Empire is built on. Lovell’s connection to the boy is one that becomes increasingly clear as Robin finds his footing in his new city – and his fluency in both Mandarin and English is what seals his entry into Babel, the translator’s college. ![]() Robin’s deliverance wasn’t a random lucky break. ![]() Her story about colonialism and its collapse revolves around Robin Swift, a soon-to-be Oxford student plucked from his dead mother’s arms in Canton by Oxford’s Professor Lovell and brought to London. Kuang travels to 1830s Oxford University to build a tale about a tower built on languages whose fate is all but guaranteed. With Babel: Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators’ Revolution, the multi-award nominated R.F. Babel: Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators’ Revolution, R.F. ![]()
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