作者：R.F.Kuang
出版社：HarperVoyager
副标题：AnArcaneHistoryoftheOxfordTranslators’Revolution
出版年：2022-8-23
页数：560
定价：USD23.99
装帧：Hardcover
ISBN：9780063021426
内容简介
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1828. 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…
Can powerful institutions be changed from within, or does revolution always require violence?
作者简介
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Rebecca F. Kuang is the Nebula, Locus, and Campbell Award nominated author of The Poppy War and its forthcoming sequel The Dragon Republic (Harper Voyager). She is currently pursuing an MPhil in Modern Chinese Studies at Cambridge University on a Marshall Scholarship, where her dissertation examines propaganda literature by Northeast writers during the Second Sino-Japanese War. Her debut The Poppy War was listed by Times, Amazon, Goodreads, and the Guardian as one of the best books of 2018 and has won the Crawford Award and Compton Crook Award for Best First Novel.
目录
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Book I
Chapter One
Chapter Two
Chapter Three
Chapter Four
Book II
Chapter Five
Chapter Six
Chapter Seven
Chapter Eight
Chapter Nine
Chapter Ten
Chapter Eleven
Chapter Twelve
Book III
Chapter Thirteen
Chapter Fourteen
Chapter Fifteen
Interlude
Chapter Sixteen
Chapter Seventeen
Chapter Eighteen
Book IV
Chapter Nineteen
Chapter Twenty
Chapter Twenty-One
Chapter Twenty-Two
Chapter Twenty-Three
Chapter Twenty-Four
Chapter Twenty-Five
Book V
Interlude
Chapter Twenty-Six
Chapter Twenty-Seven
Chapter Twenty-Eight
Chapter Twenty-Nine
Chapter Thirty
Chapter Thirty-One
Chapter Thirty-Two
Chapter Thirty-Three
Epilogue
评论 ······
能写这段历史真的很难得 但是后来的剧情是小学生打架吗
第一本BOTM。开篇太多牛津/语言学学术的insider论调，读感并不太佳，展开写silver working和Hermes之后就好太多了。Robin和林则徐1:1的那段让我颅内高潮。Les Mis式的结局我是没想到的，但是被热血到了。作者姑娘确实是才气逼人。哦翻译果真是太美了，歌颂母校！
后半部分有点melodramatic，但瑕不掩瑜，总体来说是一部很赞的学术小说！
This book effed me up in ways I was not expecting…😮💨 但是世界设定，魔法设定，还有故事真的很好啊。就是结局太现实了，我要恢复一下
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