Babel FD25 A VITALLY IMPORTANT BOOK CHALLENGING

A VITALLY IMPORTANT BOOK CHALLENGING THE MANY MISCONCEPTIONS SURROUNDING THE TOPIC OF IMMIGRATION

The relationship between menstruation and power is still held very much under the surface of mainstream awareness

' Jo Wiley

wildly imaginative

Readers will discover how artists imbued their settings with a certain aura and how their magic flows into the reality of the present

Babel FD25 A VITALLY IMPORTANT BOOK CHALLENGINGIf 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