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Dark academia
Babel
R. F. Kuang • 2022
Instant #1 New York Times Bestseller from the author of The Poppy War “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 City of Brass From award-winning author R. F. Kuang comes Babel, a thematic response to The Secret History and a tonal retort to Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell that grapples with student revolutions, colonial resistance, and the use of language and translation as the dominating tool of the British empire. Traduttore, traditore: An act of translation is always an act of betrayal. 1828. Robin Swift, orphaned by cholera in Canton, is brought to London by the mysterious Professor Lovell. There, he trains for years in Latin, Ancient Greek, and Chinese, all in preparation for the day he’ll enroll in Oxford University’s prestigious Royal Institute of Translation—also known as Babel. Babel is the world's center for translation and, more importantly, magic. Silver working—the art of manifesting the meaning lost in translation using enchanted silver bars—has made the British unparalleled in power, as its knowledge serves the Empire’s quest for colonization. For Robin, Oxford is a utopia dedicated to the pursuit of knowledge. But knowledge obeys power, and as a Chinese boy raised in Britain, Robin realizes serving Babel means betraying his motherland. As his studies progress, Robin finds himself caught between Babel and the shadowy Hermes Society, an organization dedicated to stopping imperial expansion. When Britain pursues an unjust war with China over silver and opium, Robin must decide… Can powerful institutions be changed from within, or does revolution always require violence?
Los Seis de Atlas
Olivie Blake • 2022
To Read
La Última Noche En El Club del Telégrafo
Malinda Lo • 2023
El jilguero
Donna Tartt • 2014
Maurice A Novel
Edward Morgan Forster • 1971
Mi año de descanso y relajación
Ottessa Moshfegh • 2019
Hamlet
William Shakespeare • 2022
Macbeth
William Shakespeare • 2021
Lapvona
Ottessa Moshfegh • 2022
Los recuerdos del porvenir
Elena Garro • 2019
Los ojos son la mejor parte
Monika Kim • 2025
Mandibula
Mónica Ojeda • 2021
Indigno de ser humano
Osamu Dazai • 2010
El Acontecimiento
Annie Ernaux • 2022
Un mundo feliz ; Retorno a un mundo feliz
Aldous Huxley • 2000
Lolita
Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov • 1989
Awe and exhiliration--along with heartbreak and mordant wit--abound in <b>Lolita</b>, Nabokov's most famous and controversial novel, which tells the story of the aging Humbert Humbert's obsessive, devouring, and doomed passion for the nymphet Dolores Haze. <b>Lolita</b> is also the story of a hypercivilized European colliding with the cheerful barbarism of postwar America. Most of all, it is a meditation on love--love as outrage and hallucination, madness and transformation.
Crimen y castigo
Fiódor Dostoyevski • 2020
El extranjero
Albert Camus • 1988
La mujer habitada
Gioconda Belli • 2010
El cuento de la criada
Margaret Atwood • 2017
Ensayo sobre la ceguera
José Saramago • 2010
Bajo la puerta de los susurros
T. J. Klune • 2023
The Poppy War
R. F. Kuang • 2018
Normal People
Sally Rooney • 2019
NOW AN EMMY-NOMINATED HULU ORIGINAL SERIES • NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE • “A stunning novel about the transformative power of relationships” (People) from the author of Conversations with Friends, “a master of the literary page-turner” (J. Courtney Sullivan). “[A] novel that demands to be read compulsively, in one sitting.”—The Washington Post ONE OF ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY’S TEN BEST NOVELS OF THE DECADE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: People, Slate, The New York Public Library, Harvard Crimson Connell and Marianne grew up in the same small town, but the similarities end there. At school, Connell is popular and well liked, while Marianne is a loner. But when the two strike up a conversation—awkward but electrifying—something life changing begins. A year later, they’re both studying at Trinity College in Dublin. Marianne has found her feet in a new social world while Connell hangs at the sidelines, shy and uncertain. Throughout their years at university, Marianne and Connell circle one another, straying toward other people and possibilities but always magnetically, irresistibly drawn back together. And as she veers into self-destruction and he begins to search for meaning elsewhere, each must confront how far they are willing to go to save the other. Normal People is the story of mutual fascination, friendship, and love. It takes us from that first conversation to the years beyond, in the company of two people who try to stay apart but find that they can’t. WINNER: The British Book Award, The Costa Book Award, The An Post Irish Novel of the Year, Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New York Times, The New York Times Book Review, Oprah Daily, Time, NPR, The Washington Post, Vogue, Esquire, Glamour, Elle, Marie Claire, Vox, The Paris Review, Good Housekeeping, Town & Country
Yellowface
R. F. Kuang • 2023
12 libros/12 meses
La campana de cristal
Sylvia Plath • 2019
Una habitación propia
Virginia Woolf • 2016
Noches blancas
Fiódor Dostoievski • 2015
Tango satánico
László Krasznahorkai • 2017
Cadáver exquisito
Agustina María Bazterrica • 2023
El invencible verano de Liliana
Cristina Rivera Garza • 2021
Persona normal
Benito Taibo • 2011
Carmilla
Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu • 2020
Frankenstein
Mary Shelley • 2023
Cumbres Borrascosas
Emily Brontë • 2015
Kitchen
Banana Yoshimoto • 2013
Nuestra parte de noche
Mariana Enriquez • 2019
