A Kirkus reviewer gave the book a starred review, calling it “dark academia as it should be.” There he learns of a secret society working against British imperialism. Kuang’s novel, published in August by Harper Voyager, is about a Chinese boy brought to 19th-century England to study languages at Oxford’s Royal Institute of Translation. Kuang’s Babel: Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution won the first-ever Barnes & Noble Speculative Fiction Book Award. The bookstore chain also announced that R.F. “This blockbuster debut is not only charming, funny, and whip-smart but proves that life, like science, is unpredictable.” “Our booksellers are most proud to make Lessons in Chemistry the 2022 Barnes & Noble Book of the Year,” Barnes & Noble said. In a starred review, a critic for Kirkus wrote of the book, “A more adorable plea for rationalism and gender equality would be hard to find.” Garmus’ debut novel, published in April by Doubleday, follows a scientist and single mother in the 1960s who becomes the host of a popular cooking show. Barnes & Noble announced that Bonnie Garmus’ Lessons in Chemistry is its Book of the Year.
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