Babel Tower by A. S. Byatt
Set in mid-20th-century Britain, this intellectually charged novel follows interlocking lives in family and academic circles as they confront changing sexual politics, the pressures of creativity and scholarship, and the fragile boundary between sanity and breakdown. Through dense intertextuality, mythic allusion, and sharp social satire it examines language and censorship, the costs of desire and ambition, and the struggles of women seeking independence in a constraining cultural landscape.
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- Published
- 1996
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- British
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- Original Language
- English
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