Babel
Oxford, 1836: magic runs on translation, and translation is betrayal. The dark-academia phenomenon by R. F. Kuang.
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Présentation
Traduttore, traditore: an act of translation is always an act of betrayal. Oxford, 1836. Robin Swift, orphaned in Canton and raised in England, enters Babel — the university's Royal Institute of Translation, where enchanted silver bars turn the meaning lost between languages into power. That power runs the British Empire; and serving Babel means betraying the world Robin came from. R. F. Kuang (« The Poppy War », « Yellowface ») built one of the defining dark-academia novels of the decade: winner of the Nebula Award for Best Novel 2022 and a fixture of Goodreads community lists since. Erudite, furious and compulsively readable — a fantasy that doubles as a reckoning with colonialism.