Catalog Search Results
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
17 audio discs (22 hr.) ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 computer disc (PDF ; 4 3/4 in.)
Language
English
Description
In the 19th century, an orphaned Chinese boy enrolls in Oxford's Royal Institute of Translation--Babel. Raised in Britain, he must choose whether or not to partake in an unjust war against his homeland.
Author
Language
English
Description
"From award-winning author R. F. Kuang comes Babel, 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...
In Interlibrary Loan
Didn't find what you need? Items not owned by Salina Public Library can be requested from other Interlibrary Loan libraries to be delivered to your local library for pickup.
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Try our Materials Request Service. Submit Request