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New York Times bestseller, Translators, Fiction, Chinese
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.
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Richly built, epic, meticulous and overwhelming.
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“By the time Professor Richard Lovell found his way through Canton’s narrow alleys to the faded address in his diary, the boy was the only one in the house left alive.”
Rebecca F. Kuang is a Chinese-American fantasy writer. Her first novel, *The Poppy War*, was released in 2018, followed by the sequels *The Dragon Republic* in 2019 and *The Burning God* in 2020. Kuang has won the Compton Crook Award, the Crawford Award, and the 2020 Astounding Award for Best New Writer, along with being a finalist for the Nebula, Locus, World Fantasy, The Kitschies, and British Fantasy awards for her first novel. **Source*: [R. F. Kuang](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R._F._Kuang) on Wikipedia.
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