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BABEL

▶ RELEASED 1 SEPTEMBER

560 pages | Hardback/ebook/audiobook

▶ Author RF Kuang

▶ Publisher HarperVoyager

a moment, genre fiction puts a premium on plot. Lit-fic concerns, such as the internal life of characters or taking time to describe the flowers, are frowned upon. It follows that RF Kuang’s decision to riff on the classic Victorian novel with is at the very least brave.

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