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SUMMARY:Reading Widely Book Club - Babel
DESCRIPTION:Join Deedi Brown at Buffalo Street Books for conversation about R.F. Kuang’s 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. \nBook club books are 10% off. \nAbout the Book \n1828. Robin Swift\, orphaned by cholera in Canton\, is brought to London by the mysterious Professor Lovell. There\, he trains for years in Latin\, Ancient Greek\, and Chinese\, all in preparation for the day he’ll enroll in Oxford University’s prestigious Royal Institute of Translation–also known as Babel. Babel is the world’s center for translation and\, more importantly\, magic. Silver working–the art of manifesting the meaning lost in translation using enchanted silver bars–has made the British unparalleled in power\, as its knowledge serves the Empire’s quest for colonization. For Robin\, Oxford is a utopia dedicated to the pursuit of knowledge. But knowledge obeys power\, and as a Chinese boy raised in Britain\, Robin realizes serving Babel means betraying his motherland. As his studies progress\, Robin finds himself caught between Babel and the shadowy Hermes Society\, an organization dedicated to stopping imperial expansion. When Britain pursues an unjust war with China over silver and opium\, Robin must decide… \nCan powerful institutions be changed from within\, or does revolution always require violence? \nAbout the Author \nRebecca F. Kuang is the #1 New York Times and #1 Sunday Times bestselling author of the Poppy War trilogy\, Babel: An Arcane History\, Yellowface\, and Katabasis (forthcoming). Her work has won the Nebula\, Locus\, Crawford\, and British Book Awards. She has been named to the 2023 Time100 Next list and the Forbes 30 Under 30 Class of 2024. A Marshall Scholar\, she has an MPhil in Chinese Studies from Cambridge and an MSc in Contemporary Chinese Studies from Oxford. She is now pursuing a PhD in East Asian Languages and Literatures at Yale\, where she studies Sinophone literature and Asian American literature.
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LOCATION:Buffalo Street Books\, 215 N. Cayuga St.\, Ithaca
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