Babel Collector's Edition: Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution

R. F. Kuang's instant #1 New York Times bestselling novel!

Babel is a thematic response to The Secret History and a tonal retort to Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell that grapples with student revolutions, colonial resistance, and the use of language and translation as the dominating tool of the British empire.

Traduttore, traditore: An act of translation is always an act of betrayal.

1828. Robin Swift, orphaned by cholera in Canton, is brought to London by the mysterious Professor Lovell. There,...