Book Review: Babel - R. F. Kuang
![Book cover featuring the dreaming spires of Oxford. The page is ripped in two and the Tower of Babel is no longer there.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/shkspr.mobi/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/x400.jpg)
This is an astonishing book. On the one hand, it's the basic "Harry Potter" trope - a young orphan is gifted, gets sent to school to learn magic, becomes pals with the other weird kids, has adventures, and fights a monster. Except here, Harry is Chinese, is sent to Oxford University to learn magic, and […]
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