Babel: or, the necessity of violence : an arcane history of the Oxford translators' revolution
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A Chinese boy orphaned by cholera and raised in Britain is trained to work at Oxford's prestigious Royal Institute of Translation, the world's center for translation and magic through silver-working, where he must choose between competing loyalties.
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Babel : or, the necessity of violence : an arcane history of the Oxford translators' revolution
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Babel : or, the necessity of violence : an arcane history of the Oxford translators' revolution / R.F. Kuang
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Babel Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of The Oxford Translators' Revolution
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