BPL · Book · 2022
Babel, or, the necessity of violence : an arcane history of the Oxford translators' revolution
R F Kuang
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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ISBN 9780063021426
Current availability across the 12 tracked branches
| Branch | Available | Total | Holds |
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| Bay Ridge | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Brooklyn Heights | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Bushwick | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Coney Island | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Crown Heights | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Greenpoint | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Sunset Park | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Williamsburgh | 0 | 3 | 1 |
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