The Books Oracle
by R.F. Kuang
At Oxford's Royal Institute of Translation in the 1830s, the empire's power hinges on silver-working—a magic born from translation. Robin Swift, a Chinese orphan, excels in this world until he's forced to choose between complicity and revolution in Kuang's scathing interrogation of colonialism, language, and belonging.
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