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BABEL : Or Necessity of Violence (Record no. 198943)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 978000501853
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Terms of availability Purchased
Note Mathrubhumi Books,Kadavanthra
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Language code of text/sound track or separate title English
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Classification number F
Item number KUA/BA
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Personal name Kuang, R.F
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Title BABEL : Or Necessity of Violence
Remainder of title : Arcane History of the Oxford Translator's Revolution
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Edition statement 1
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT)
Place of publication, distribution, etc. London
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. Harper Voyager
Date of publication, distribution, etc. 2023
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Size of unit 546
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General note 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?
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Fiction
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Fantasy-Fiction
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Historical Fiction
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Koha item type Lending
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    Dewey Decimal Classification     Fiction Ernakulam Public Library Ernakulam Public Library Fiction 2026-07-22 Purchased 599.00 897,2026/07/22 2 3 F KUA/BA E1103080 2026-10-04 2026-09-05 2026-09-05 2026-07-22 Lending