Babel, or The Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution

Name: Babel, or The Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution
Author: R.F. Kuang

R.F. Kuang · 2022 · book9.328 ratings

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 Brit…