Résultats pour "Babel" dans Littérature, romans et fiction

Le phénomène littéraire de retour dans une toute nouvelle édition reliée collector. "Un acte de traduction est toujours un acte de trahison.' - R. F. Kuang 1828. Un jeune orphelin chinois est recueilli à Canton par un professeur et conduit à Londres. Rebaptisé Robin Swift, le jeune...

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...

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’ GUARDIAN 'Literary super-stardom doesn't seem...

Jouant avec les codes du suspense, de la manipulation et du roman d'anticipation, Michel Bussi ne vous aura jamais autant fait voyager. La méthode, calme et systématique, du tueur terrifia les trois enquêteurs. Qui était cet assassin progressant à visage découvert ? Déjà, leurs tabletas se connectaient aux bases de données planétaires de reconnaissance faciale. Plus personne ne pouvait rester anonyme dans le monde actuel. Dans quelques secondes, ils connaîtraient l'identité de ce monstre. La suite du film fut plus sidérante encore.

Babel-17, winner of the Nebula Award for best novel of the year, is a fascinating tale of a famous poet bent on deciphering a secret language that is the key to the enemy's deadly force, a task that requires she travel with a splendidly improbable crew to the site of the next attack.

Les relations entre l'Empire du Nikan et la Fédération de Mugen ont toujours été conflictuelles. Lorsque l'Empire se retrouve affaibli, la Fédération en profite pour l'envahir. Deux Guerres du pavot sont nécessaires pour vaincre et repousser l'ennemi mugenais vers le large. Des siècles...

1828. El Instituto Real de Traducción de Oxford, también conocido como Babel, es la institución mágica más importante del mundo. La magia con plata capaz de revelar significados ocultos perdidos en la traducción que allí se practica le ha otorgado al Imperio británico un poder sin parangón. Robin, un huérfano cantonés que ha terminado siendo alumno en Babel, se ha dado cuenta de que servir a Babel significa traicionar a su país de origen. 

Rimasto orfano a Canton e portato in Inghilterra da un misterioso tutore, Robin Swift credeva che Babel fosse un paradiso. Fino a che non è diventata una prigione... Può uno studente lottare contro un impero?

Mild-mannered headmaster, Thomas Senlin prefers his adventures to be safely contained within the pages of a book. So when he loses his new bride shortly after embarking on the honeymoon of their dreams, he is ill-prepared for the trouble that follows. To find her, Senlin must enter the Tower of Babel - a world of geniuses and tyrants, of menace and wonder, of unusual animals and mysterious machines. And if he hopes to ever see his wife again, he will have to do more than just survive...this quiet man of letters must become a man of action.

1828. Robin Swift, den ein Cholera-Ausbruch im chinesischen Kanton als Waisenjungen zurücklässt, wird von dem geheimnisvollen Professor Lovell nach London gebracht. Dort lernt er jahrelang Latein, Altgriechisch und Chinesisch, um sich auf den Tag vorzubereiten, an dem er in das Königliche Institut für Übersetzung der Universität Oxford - auch bekannt als Babel - aufgenommen werden soll. Oxford ist das Zentrum allen Wissens und Fortschritts in der Welt. Für Robin erfüllt sich ein Traum, an dem Ort zu studieren, der die ganze Macht des britischen Empire verkörpert.

Tous les récits écrits par Babel sont construits à partir d’événements vécus ou de personnages réels. Les Contes d’Odessa décrivent un milieu très particulier : celui des bas-fonds du grand port de la mer Noire où les Juifs formaient près d’un tiers de la population. Gangsters, charretiers, intermédiaires malhonnêtes du ghetto de la Moldavanka y sont évoqués avec truculence, humour et tendresse.

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The first book in the word-of-mouth phenomenon debut fantasy series about one man's dangerous journey through a labyrinthine world. "One of my favorite books of all time" -- Mark Lawrence The Tower of Babel is the greatest marvel in the world. Immense as a mountain, the ancient Tower holds...

Inspired by Scottish mythology and filled with found family, slow burn romance, and book-based magic, The Arcane Archives is a dark academia fantasy adventure from a brilliant new talent. Every soul that has ever existed has a life book. Astra is an Archivist, tasked with keeping the life books...

Auf zehn steinernen Tafeln kündigt der "Kult des goldenen Kalbs" in verschlüsselten Botschaften seine geplanten Aktionen an und eröffnet damit für Auguste Dupin, Edgar Allan Poe und Irene Adler ein Wettrennen gegen die Zeit.

The descendants of Nimrod return—not with bricks and mortar, but with quantum engineering, mysticism, and the unrelenting drive of human ambition. Their mission: to reconstruct the legendary Tower of Babel on the Ashar Plateau, not just to unify humanity, but to tap into the very architecture of the cosmos itself. Led by the Warkans—a coalition of scientists, mystics, and visionaries—the project begins with grand hopes. But as the Tower rises, so too does unrest. Ideological rifts fracture their unity. Strange anomalies ripple across time and space.

The incredible final book in the phenomenon fantasy series described as “future classics" follows one man's dangerous journey through a labyrinthine world and the mysteries he uncovers along the way. (Los Angeles Times). "Josiah Bancroft is a magician. His books are that rare alchemy...

Language is no longer learned, but streamed to neural implants regulated by lang-laws. Those who can't afford language streaming services are feral, living on the fringes of society. Big tech corporations control language, the world’s most valuable commodity. But when a massive cyberattack causes a global language outage, catastrophe looms.

Brought to you by Penguin. Godkiller and The Priory of The Orange Tree meet sweeping Greek retellings in this epic fantasy series in ancient Greece FOR MORTALS TO RISE THE GODS MUST FALL. In Ancient Greece, the Twelve Gods demand the ultimate tribute – food, treasure, even human sacrifice...

A visionary retelling of the story of the Tower of Babel...More than a century after the worldwide flood, Noah, now the forefather of the living world, works peacefully in his vineyard until tragedy tears apart his relationship with his son, Ham. Years later, dark prophetic dreams inextricably link him with a young man carrying scars from a painful past, and a young woman who longs for acceptance yet harbor secrets darker than either of them imagine.