2024 Indie Book Award for Fiction (shortlist)
2023 British Book Award Fiction Book of the Year
2023 Dragon Award for Best Fantasy Novel (nominee)
2023 Ignyte Award for Outstanding Novel (nominee)
2023 Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel
2023 Sidewise Award for Best Long-Form Alternate History (nominee)
2023 World Fantasy Award for Best Novel (nominee)
2022 Nebula Award for Best Novel
THE #2 SUNDAY TIMES AND #1 NYT BESTSELLER
‘One for Philip Pullman fans’THE TIMES
‘This one is an automatic buy’
GLAMOUR
‘Ambitious, sweeping and epic’
EVENING STANDARD
‘Razor-sharp’
DAILY MAIL
‘An ingenious fantasy about empire’
GUARDIAN
Traduttore, traditore: An act of translation is always an act of betrayal.
Oxford, 1836.
The city of dreaming spires.
It is the centre of all knowledge and progress in the world.
And at its centre is Babel, the Royal Institute of Translation. The tower from which all the power of the Empire flows.
Orphaned in Canton and brought to England by a mysterious guardian, Babel seemed like paradise to Robin Swift.
Until it became a prison…
But can a student stand against an empire?
An incendiary new novel from award-winning author R.F. Kuang about the power of language, the violence of colonialism, and the sacrifices of resistance.
'A masterpiece that resonates with power and knowledge. BABEL is a stark picture of the cruelty of empire, a distillation of dark academia, and a riveting blend of fantasy and historical fiction – a monumental achievement’
Samantha Shannon, author of THE PRIORY OF THE ORANGE TREE
R.F. Kuang’s book ‘Babel’ was a New York Times bestseller w/c 11-09-2022.
Rebecca F Kuang's book 'Yellowface' was a No.1 Sunday Times bestseller w/c 2023-05-22.
Genre: Fantasy
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