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Book Club: Babel
A book club for adults who want to read in community. We meet one Friday morning a month to chat about a title we read in common.
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December Title
BABEL
by R.F. Kuang
In 1828, Robin Swift, orphaned by cholera in Canton, is brought to London by a mysterious professor to train for Oxford University’s prestigious Royal Institute of Translation—known as Babel. For Robin, Oxford is a utopia dedicated to the pursuit of knowledge. But knowledge obeys power, and as a Chinese boy raised in Britain, when Britain pursues an unjust war with China over silver and opium, Robin must decide: Can powerful institutions be changed from within, or does revolution always require violence?
Copies available by the Circulation Desk starting November 10.
