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Babel: Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution - R. F. Kuang

Story location: Oxford, England

An orphaned scholar enters Oxford's elite translation institute, where language, magic, scholarship, empire, and rebellion become inseparable.

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