The SUNDAY TIMES and #1 NEW YORK TIMES bestseller
Rebecca F. Kuang is a Marshall Scholar, Chinese-English translator, and the Astounding Award-winning and the Hugo, Nebula, Locus, and World Fantasy Award nominated author of the Poppy War trilogy and Babel. Her work has won the Crawford Award and the Compton Crook Award for Best First Novel. She has an MPhil in Chinese Studies from Cambridge and an MSc in Contemporary Chinese Studies from Oxford; she is now pursuing a PhD in East Asian Languages and Literatures at Yale.
BLACKWELL’S BOOK OF THE YEAR A WATERSTONES BOOK OF THE YEAR
FINALIST DAILY MAIL BEST BOOK OF 2022 ‘Absolutely phenomenal. One
of the most brilliant, razor-sharp books I've had the pleasure of
reading that isn't just an alternative fantastical history, but an
interrogative one; one that grabs colonial history and the
Industrial Revolution, turns it over, and shakes it out’
Shannon Chakraborty, bestselling author of THE EMPIRE OF GOLD ‘A
masterpiece that resonates with power and knowledge. BABEL is a
stark picture of the cruelty of empire, a distillation of dark
academia, and a riveting blend of fantasy and historical fiction –
a monumental achievement’
Samantha Shannon, bestselling author of THE PRIORY OF THE ORANGE
TREE ‘A masterpiece. Through a meticulously researched and a wholly
impressive deep dive into linguistics and the politics of language
and translation, Kuang weaves a story that is part love-hate letter
to academia, part scathing indictment of the colonial enterprise,
and all fiery revolution’
Rebecca Roanhorse, NYT bestselling author of BLACK SUN ‘Kuang has
outdone herself. BABEL is brilliant, vicious, sensitive, epic, and
intimate; it's both a love letter and a declaration of war. It's a
perfect book’
Alix E. Harrow, bestselling author of A THOUSAND DOORS OF JANUARY
‘A book that confirms Kuang as a major talent’
SFX ‘Brainy, brilliant, and fuelled by righteous anger, Babel is a
towering tour-de-force of fantasy’
DAILY MAIL ‘BABEL has earned tremendous praise and deserves all of
it. It’s Philip Pullman’s THE GOLDEN COMPASS by way of N.K.
Jemisin’s THE FIFTH SEASON: inventive and engaging, passionate and
precise’
NEW YORK TIMES
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