![]() ![]() In this Babel Book Summary, we follow Robin who has Chinese heritage, Ramy with Indian heritage, and a Caribbean heritage woman, Victorie. Her prose is wonderful, smooth, and pure like raw honey, bringing about epic moments, and hitting you exactly where it hurts right in your mind, with all the thoughts they bring about. ![]() If you have read The Poppy War - which most of us probably have, then we are no strangers to Kuang’s writing, knowing that she writes beautifully. In Kuang’s books, with Babel being no exception, you take a “small” academic setting, adding in the exploration of Robin as he faces Oxford as a Chinese-British student in a place that is severely racist (it is set in the 1820s), creating high-stakes in the form of a revolution, a methodical, unforgiving examination of the cost of power and the pain of achieving it as a foreigner. Kuang definitely a book that you savor, taking bite by bite until you have completed it.īy title alone, Babel or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators’ Revolution, it is clear from the time you read the author’s note that this isn’t your average dark academia-themed fantasy novel, but a book that will have you making pages and thinking out loud. Then there are books you ingest in parts, books you need to savor because they are revealing parts of you as you read along. ![]() Now, there are books that you read all in one sitting taking in the elements until you have devoured the entire thing. ![]()
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