dabos christelle the memory of babel
Dabos Christelle The Memory of Babel
Book 3 of the Mirror Visitor Quartet In the gripping third volume of Christelle Dabos’s best-selling saga, Ophelia, the mirror-travelling heroine, finds herself in the magical city of Babel, guarding a secret that may provide a key both to the past and the future. After two years and seven months biding her time on Anima, her home ark, it is finally time to act, to put what she has discovered in the Book of Faruk to good use. Under an assumed identity she travels to Babel, a cosmopolitan and thoroughly modern ark that is the jewel of the universe, and where automata have taken over the most humble jobs from humans. But under the surface of this pacific and orderly ark social unrest stirs, fed by the memories of a fateful purge long ago, and the inhabitants’ growing fear of being replaced altogether. Will Ophelia’s talent as a reader suffice to avoid her being lured into a deadly trap by her ever more fearful adversaries? Will she ever see Thorn, her betrothed, again?
1822 Руб.
Dabos Christelle The Storm of Echoes
The dazzling finale of the international bestselling series: The Mirror Visitor In the closing volume of her thrilling saga, Christelle Dabos transports us back to her wonderful fantasy world. Readers will be gripped by the all too human trials and tribulations of the protagonists. Ophelia and Thorn brave a complex universe fraught with allegories, in their quest to uncover the truth. As the walls of mistrust that stood between them lie in ruins, Ophelia and Thorn fall in love. However, they must keep their love a secret and continue their investigation into God's code and the mysterious figure called the Other, and its devastating powers of destruction. But how will they find it, without even knowing what it looks like? More united than ever Ophelia and Thorn arrive at the Deviations Observatory. Here, behind an apparently benign facade, is a laboratory where terrifying, cruel experiments are conducted. Will the lovers discover the truth they've been searching for, and will they be able to bring balance back to the world of the Arks?
2592 Руб.
Dabos Christelle The Missing of Clairdelune
The second volume in The Mirror Visitor Quartet and follow-up to A Winter's Promise, Waterstones Children's Book Prize Finalist 2019 Lose yourself in the magical universe of the arks, brought to life in this mesmerising tale of intrigue and suspense. Awkward misfit or misunderstood genius, Ophelia cares little about appearances. She possesses two special gifts: a talent for reading the pasts of objects and the ability to travel through mirrors. Her peaceful existence is interrupted when she is promised in marriage to a member of a powerful clan from a cold and distant ark. When our heroine is promoted to Vice-storyteller by the ancestral Spirit of Pole, she finds herself unexpectedly thrust into the public spotlight. Now that her powers are known to all, she is forced to reveal the nefarious plots that have been brewing beneath the golden rafters of Citaceleste and to throw herself into its political machinations. In this perilous situation, the only person she may be able to trust is Thorn, her enigmatic fiance. As one after another influential courtier vanishes in suspicious circumstances, Ophelia again finds herself unintentionally implicated in an investigation that will lead her to see beyond Pole's many illusions to the heart of the formidable truth.
1692 Руб.
Dabos Christelle Et l'imagination prend feu. Les secrets d'écriture de Christelle Dabos
Par l'autrice du best-seller la Passe-miroir paru aux editions Gallimard. Un recit initiatique sur la decouverte de l’ecriture avec l’eclosion touchante, semee de doutes et d’illuminations, d’une ecrivaine. Une plongee passionnante dans la puissance de l’imagination ; un livre plein d’humanite, d’humour et de conseils. « ll y avait cette machine a ecrire. C’etaient les annees 1980, l’ere du papier peint psychedelique et des cordons telephoniques en queue-de-cochon. J’avais, moi, cet age ou le monde est trop haut et trop grand, hors de portee, meme en me hissant sur la pointe des pieds. Et donc, il y avait cette machine a ecrire. Dans un coin du cagibi, a ma portee, elle. En appuyant sur une touche, je pouvais voir la barre a caracteres s’elancer, s’abattre sur la feuille et repartir en sens inverse dans un “tchac ! ” jubilatoire. » De l’eau a coule sous les pages depuis que Christelle Dabos a remporte le concours Gallimard du premier roman jeunesse avec le tome 1 de la saga phenomene La Passe-miroir. Quatre tomes et dix ans plus tard, l’autrice revient avec ce recit, aussi sensible que virtuose, pour nous raconter comment ses histoires prennent vie.
4196 Руб.
Dabos Christelle A Winter's Promise
Volume 1 of The Mirror Visitor Quartet Lose yourself in the fantastic world of the arks and in the company of unforgettable characters in this French runaway hit. Plain-spoken, headstrong Ophelia cares little about appearances. Her ability to read the past of objects is unmatched in all of Anima and, what’s more, she possesses the ability to travel through mirrors, a skill passed down to her from previous generations. Her idyllic life is disrupted, however, when she is promised in marriage to Thorn, a taciturn and influential member of a distant clan. Ophelia must leave all she knows behind and follow her fiance to Citaceleste, the capital of a cold, icy ark known as the Pole, where danger lurks around every corner and nobody can be trusted. There, in the presence of her inscrutable future husband, Ophelia slowly realizes that she is a pawn in a political game that will have far-reaching ramifications not only for her but for her entire world.
2892 Руб.
Babel: Or the Necessity of Violence: an Arcane History of the Oxford Translators Revolution
THE #2 SUNDAY TIMES AND #1 NYT BESTSELLER'One for Philip Pullman fans'THE TIMES'This one is an automatic buy'GLAMOUR'Ambitious, sweeping and epic'EVENING STANDARD'Razor-sharp'DAILY MAIL'An ingenious fantasy about empire'GUARDIANTraduttore, traditore: An act of translation is always an act of betrayal.Oxford, 1836.The city of dreaming spires.It is the centre of all knowledge and progress in the world.And at its centre is Babel, the Royal Institute of Translation. The tower from which all the power of the Empire flows.Orphaned in Canton and brought to England by a mysterious guardian, Babel seemed like paradise to Robin Swift.Until it became a prison...But can a student stand against an empire?An incendiary new novel from award-winning author R.F. Kuang about the power of language, the violence of colonialism, and the sacrifices of resistance.'A masterpiece that resonates with power and knowledge. BABEL is a stark picture of the cruelty of empire, a distillation of dark academia, and a riveting blend of fantasy and historical fiction - a monumental achievement'Samantha Shannon, author of THE PRIORY OF THE ORANGE TREER.F. Kuang's book 'Babel' was a New York Times bestseller w/c 11-09-2022.
4052 Руб.
Ребекка Куанг. Babel
Город мечтающих шпилей.Это центр всех знаний и прогресса в мире.И в его центре находится Вавилон, Королевский институт перевода. Башня, из которой вытекает вся мощь Империи.Осиротевший в Кантоне и привезенный в Англию таинственным опекуном, Бабель показался Робину Свифту раем.Пока оно не стало тюрьмой…Но сможет ли студент противостоять империи?Новый зажигательный роман отмеченного наградами писателя Р.Ф. Куанг о силе языка, насилии колониализма и жертвах сопротивления.«Шедевр, который резонирует с силой и знаниями. BABEL — это яркая картина жестокости империи, квинтэссенция темной академической науки и захватывающая смесь фэнтези и исторической фантастики — монументальное достижение».Саманта Шеннон, автор книги «Приорат апельсинового дерева»The city of dreaming spires.It is the centre of all knowledge and progress in the world.And at its centre is Babel, the Royal Institute of Translation. The tower from which all the power of the Empire flows.Orphaned in Canton and brought to England by a mysterious guardian, Babel seemed like paradise to Robin Swift.Until it became a prison…But can a student stand against an empire?An incendiary new novel from award-winning author R.F. Kuang about the power of language, the violence of colonialism, and the sacrifices of resistance.'A masterpiece that resonates with power and knowledge. BABEL is a stark picture of the cruelty of empire, a distillation of dark academia, and a riveting blend of fantasy and historical fiction – a monumental achievement’Samantha Shannon, author of THE PRIORY OF THE ORANGE TREER.F. Kuang’s book ‘Babel’ was a New York Times bestseller w/c 11-09-2022.
3520 Руб.
Kuang R. F. Babel or The Necessity of Violence
Traduttore, traditore: An act of translation is always an act of betrayal. Oxford, 1836. The city of dreaming spires. It is the centre of all knowledge and progress in the world. And at its centre is Babel, the Royal Institute of Translation. The tower from which all the power of the Empire flows. Orphaned in Canton and brought to England by a mysterious guardian, Babel seemed like paradise to Robin Swift. Until it became a prison… But can a student stand against an empire? An incendiary new novel from award-winning author R.F. Kuang about the power of language, the violence of colonialism, and the sacrifices of resistance.
4179 Руб.
Kuang R.F. Babel: Or the Necessity of Violence: an Arcane History of the Oxford Translators Revolution
THE #2 SUNDAY TIMES AND #1 NYT BESTSELLER'One for Philip Pullman fans'THE TIMES'This one is an automatic buy'GLAMOUR'Ambitious, sweeping and epic'EVENING STANDARD'Razor-sharp'DAILY MAIL'An ingenious fantasy about empire'GUARDIANTraduttore, traditore: An act of translation is always an act of betrayal.Oxford, 1836.The city of dreaming spires.It is the centre of all knowledge and progress in the world.And at its centre is Babel, the Royal Institute of Translation. The tower from which all the power of the Empire flows.Orphaned in Canton and brought to England by a mysterious guardian, Babel seemed like paradise to Robin Swift.Until it became a prison...But can a student stand against an empire?An incendiary new novel from award-winning author R.F. Kuang about the power of language, the violence of colonialism, and the sacrifices of resistance.'A masterpiece that resonates with power and knowledge. BABEL is a stark picture of the cruelty of empire, a distillation of dark academia, and a riveting blend of fantasy and historical fiction - a monumental achievement'Samantha Shannon, author of THE PRIORY OF THE ORANGE TREER.F. Kuang's book 'Babel' was a New York Times bestseller w/c 11-09-2022.
4052 Руб.
Kuang R.F. Babel: Or the Necessity of Violence: an Arcane History of the Oxford Translators Revolution
THE #2 SUNDAY TIMES AND #1 NYT BESTSELLER'One for Philip Pullman fans'THE TIMES'This one is an automatic buy'GLAMOUR'Ambitious, sweeping and epic'EVENING STANDARD'Razor-sharp'DAILY MAIL'An ingenious fantasy about empire'GUARDIANTraduttore, traditore: An act of translation is always an act of betrayal.Oxford, 1836.The city of dreaming spires.It is the centre of all knowledge and progress in the world.And at its centre is Babel, the Royal Institute of Translation. The tower from which all the power of the Empire flows.Orphaned in Canton and brought to England by a mysterious guardian, Babel seemed like paradise to Robin Swift.Until it became a prison...But can a student stand against an empire?An incendiary new novel from award-winning author R.F. Kuang about the power of language, the violence of colonialism, and the sacrifices of resistance.'A masterpiece that resonates with power and knowledge. BABEL is a stark picture of the cruelty of empire, a distillation of dark academia, and a riveting blend of fantasy and historical fiction - a monumental achievement'Samantha Shannon, author of THE PRIORY OF THE ORANGE TREER.F. Kuang's book 'Babel' was a New York Times bestseller w/c 11-09-2022.
4052 Руб.
Kuang R.F. Babel - Or the Necessity of Violence. An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators’ Revolution PB
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?
1777 Руб.
Kuang R.F. Babel - Or the Necessity of Violence. An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators’ Revolution PB
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?
1777 Руб.
Burns Alan Babel
Babel, Alan Burns’s fourth critically acclaimed novel, contains all the hallmarks of the aleatoric style he helped to define – shot through with seemingly random newspaper headlines, poems, snatches of conversation and anecdote, which both heighten and undermine meaning, and characterized by extreme contrasts of mood and style and startling surrealist juxtapositions of images and ideas. By turns comic and tragic, tender and brutal, religious and blasphemous, the narrative rockets from London to the United States to Vietnam to interstellar space, familiar events are constantly fragmented and reset into new patterns, and ultimately Babel becomes a cautionary tale about the tragedy arising from attempting to build Utopia.
2394 Руб.
Solzhenitsyn Aleksandr Apricot Jam and Other Stories
In this stunning final work of fiction, the Nobel Prize-winning author of One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich introduces an astonishing set of characters whose day-to-day lives are transformed under the pressures of Soviet rule. These stories confirm Solzhenitsyn’s position alongside Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky and Babel as one of Russia’s greatest writers.
1733 Руб.
Dorren Gaston Babel. Around the World in 20 Languages
A quirky language-lovers tour of the twenty most-spoken languages in the world - what puts them a cut above the other six thousand? If you were to master the twenty languages discussed in Babel, you could talk with three quarters of the world's population. But what makes these languages stand out amid the world's estimated 6,500 tongues? Gaston Dorren delves deep into the linguistic oddities and extraordinary stories of these diverse lingua francas, tracing their origins and their sometimes bloody rise to greatness. He deciphers their bewildering array of scripts, presents the gems and gaps in their vocabularies and charts their coinages and loans. He even explains how their grammars order their speakers' worldview. Combining linguistics and cultural history, Babel takes us on an intriguing tour of the world, addressing such questions as how tiny Portugal spawned a major world language and Holland didn't, why Japanese women talk differently from men, what it means for Russian to be 'related' to English, and how non-alphabetic scripts, such as those of India and China, do the same job as our 26 letters. Not to mention the conundrums of why Vietnamese has four forms for 'I', or how Tamil pronouns keep humans and deities apart. Babel will change the way you look at the world and how we all speak.
1933 Руб.
Foer Joshua Moonwalking with Einstein. The Art and Science of Remembering Everything
Can anyone get a perfect memory? Joshua Foer used to be like most of us, forgetting phone numbers and mislaying keys. Then he learnt the art of memory training, and a year later found himself in the finals of the US Memory Championship. He also discovered a truth we often forget: that, even in an age of technology, memory is the key to everything we are. In Moonwalking with Einstein he takes us on an astonishing journey through the mind, from ancient 'memory palace' techniques to neuroscience, from the man who can recall nine thousand books to another who constantly forgets who he is. In doing so, Foer shows how we can all improve our memories.
2176 Руб.