Babel, or The Necessity of Violence

Overall enjoyable if a little plodding at times. On the one hand, an interesting indictment of colonialism. On the other hand, its strike feels strangely Randian. For a while, I found it a little frustrating that the novel introduced this fantastical element but had history play out the same, but towards the end, I was struck with how much of an allegory it is, with silver standing in for lithium.