01738nam a2200241 4500 260722b |||||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d 9780008501853 Purchased Blossom, Ernakulam English F KUA/BA Kuang, R.F BABEL : Or Necessity of Violence : Arcane History of the Oxford Translator's Revolution 1 London Harper Collins 2023 546 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? Fiction Fantasy-Fiction Historical Fiction LEN ddc ddc 0 0 ddc 0 0 FIC MAIN MAIN FIC 2026-07-21 Purchased 510.00 3113,2026/07/21 2 3 F KUA/BA E1103078 2026-10-03 2026-09-04 13:29:42 2026-09-04 2026-07-21 LEN 198926 198926