![]() The publisher’s blurb dubs it ‘a thematic response to The Secret History by Donna Tartt and a tonal response to Susanna Clark’s Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell’, while Rebecca herself describes it as a ‘love letter and break-up letter to Oxford’. Her new novel, Babel, or The Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators’ Revolution (which released this August) is a dark academia tome set in 1830s England. After completing her BA in History from Georgetown, Rebecca was a 2018 Marshall Scholar at Magdalene College, University of Cambridge (MPhil in Chinese Studies) studied at the University of Oxford in 2019 (MSc in Contemporary Chinese Studies) and is currently at Yale University (PhD in East Asian Languages and Literatures). The author, whose family immigrated to the United States from Guangzhou, China, when she was just four years old, is a scholar first and foremost. Author Rebecca F Kuang’s new book is a dark academia tome set in 1830s England ![]() The Dragon Republic and The Burning God, books two and three of the trilogy inspired by the Second Sino-Japanese War, were released to wide acclaim in the following years. ![]() Rebecca F Kuang was 19 years old when she started writing The Poppy War, the grim, dark fantasy novel which was published three years later by Harper Collins, and went on to be a finalist for the Locus, the Nebula, the World Fantasy, and other prestigious awards. ![]()
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