“At night, the moon conspired with streetlamps to bathe the city in a faint, otherworldly glow. The cobblestones beneath their feet seemed like roads leading into and out of different centuries… They moved within a timeless space, shared by the ghosts of scholars past.”

— BABEL by R. F. Kuang

This novel balances empire’s brutality with its seductions in a truly wonderful way.
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