This is not a simple story. The main characters are students at an elite institute in Oxford.
The novel explores the culture and history of language, the power of accurate translation, philosophy and literature.
It is about colonisation, racism, betrayal and the blindness of privileged nations - in this story the Brits.
The only magical elements are the silver bars filled with the power of words used by Babel ( in this case the British Empire).
There are so many parallels to today's world: silver - dollar, British Empire - America sitting on a pedestal dictating the course of action in our world. Would you agree that there are great analogies between reality and the novel?

Towards the end of the book, I actually cried because there were many moments I hadn't expected.
The fall of Babel was not only an allegory to the biblical story, but also a parallel that without the fall there will be no change in the world.

I recommend this book to anyone interested in the topics of Dark Academia, linguistics and politics.

5/5 ⭐