Prepare for one hell of a journey...
'A big, bold fantasy romp' GUARDIAN
'R.F. Kuang is making magic' ELLE
'[A] truly original and spellbinding hero's-journey story' VOGUE
'I devoured it' RED
2025's most unexpected love story is going to be hell in the new No.1 Sunday Times bestselling novel by R.F. Kuang.
Katabasis, noun, Ancient Greek. The story of a hero's descent to the underworld.
Grad student Alice Law has only ever had one goal: to become the brightest mind in the field of analytic magick.
But the only person who can make her dream come true is dead and - inconveniently - in Hell. And Alice, along with her biggest rival Peter Murdoch, is going after him.
But Hell is not as the philosophers claim, its rules are upside-down, and if she's going to get out of there alive, she and Peter will have to work together.
That's if they can agree on anything.
Will they triumph, or kill each other trying?
'Literary super-stardom doesn't seem too far out of her reach' THE HERALD
'Mind-bending fantasy' GRAZIA
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'It's Dante's Inferno meets The Secret History and it's at the top of our read-next pile' Elle
'A novel to savour ... I envy those who get to read it for the first time' Rebecca Ross
'A witty, gory, harrowing ride' Leigh Bardugo
'A formidable, timeless work, destined to be a modern classic' Olivie Blake
'A sprawling, erudite tale of magic ... teeming with intelligence, ideas and humour' Marie Claire
'The unrolling of a daring concept' Daily Mail
'An arresting and deeply affecting novel' SFX
'A rich novel of romance, history and magic' iPaper
'An immersive, worldbuilding adventure ... I devoured it' Red
'Profound ... Linger[s] on the mind' New Statesmen
'Bitingly funny dark academia' Arts Hub
KATABASIS IS A RADIO 2 BOOK CLUB SUMMER SELECTION, ELLE'S BOOK OF THE MONTH, AND INCLUDED IN THE GUARDIAN'S ROUND-UP OF MOST ANTICIPATED 2025 FICTION.
BABEL WAS A BRITISH BOOK OF THE YEAR, BLACKWELL'S BOOK OF THE YEAR, A WATERSTONES BOOK OF THE YEAR FINALIST AND THE DAILY MAIL BEST BOOK OF 2022
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Verlagsort
Verlagsgruppe
Maße
Höhe: 239 mm
Breite: 163 mm
Dicke: 42 mm
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ISBN-13
978-0-00-850186-0 (9780008501860)
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Schweitzer Klassifikation
Rebecca F. Kuang is a Marshall Scholar, Chinese-English translator, and the Astounding Award-winning and the Hugo, Nebula, Locus, and World Fantasy Award nominated author of the Poppy War trilogy and the forthcoming Babel. Her work has won the Crawford Award and the Compton Crook Award for Best First Novel. She has an MPhil in Chinese Studies from Cambridge and an MSc in Contemporary Chinese Studies from Oxford; she is now pursuing a PhD in East Asian Languages and Literatures at Yale.
