From award-winning author R. F. Kuang comes Babel, a thematic response to The Secret History …
Content warning Spoilers for chapter 12
Still, they couldn’t quite ignore the headlines, hawked from every street corner on their way to the tower:
BABEL A THREAT TO THE NATIONAL ECONOMY?
FOREIGN BARS SEND DOZENS TO THE WORKHOUSE
SAY NO TO SILVER!
It should have been distressing. In truth, though, Robin found it was actually quite easy to put up with any degree of social unrest, as long as one got used to looking away.
— Babel: Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution by R. F. Kuang (38%)