R. F. Kuang
Author
Language
English
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Description
After the death of her literary rival in a freak accident, author June Hayward steals her just-finished masterpiece, sending it to her agent as her own work, but as emerging evidence threatens her success, she discovers how far she'll go to keep what she thinks she deserves.
Author
Series
Poppy War volume 2
Publisher
Harper Voyager, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
652 pages : maps ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Poppy war volume 3
Publisher
Harper Voyager, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
622 pages : illustration ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
The exciting end to The Poppy War trilogy, R. F. Kuang's acclaimed, award-winning epic fantasy that combines the history of twentieth-century China with a gripping world of gods and monsters, to devastating, enthralling effect. After saving her nation of Nikan from foreign invaders and battling the evil Empress Su Daji in a brutal civil war, Fang Runin was betrayed by allies and left for dead. Despite her losses, Rin hasn't given up on those for whom...
Author
Publisher
Harper Voyager
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
xii, 544 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"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...