- Publisher: HarperVoyager
- Year: 2025
- Format: Hardback
- Pages: 558pp
- Illustrated: Yes
- Dimensions: 238x158mm
- Condition: New
- Weight: 0.9kg
- ISBN: 9780008501860
- Product code: 545316
Katabasis
New Hardback Illustrated
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Recent graduate Alice Law has sacrificed everything to pursue her studies in analytic magick and a recommendation from Professor Grimes will be crucial to her success. When he dies in an accident, she is determined not to let that stand in her way and embarks on a journey into Hell to find him, but must team up with her rival Peter to do so. In an atmospheric narrative that encompasses elements of mythology, philosophy and mathematical theory, Kuang presents a cruel but bureaucratic underworld in which her protagonists face dangers as well as challenges to their perception of academia.
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'Katabasis is a formidable, timeless work, destined to be a modern classic' OLIVIE BLAKE
'Katabasis is more than a novel to savor. This book is an experience. I envy those who get to read it for the first time' REBECCA ROSS
'A witty, gory, harrowing ride' LEIGH BARDUGO
'Literary super-stardom doesn't seem too far out of her reach now.' THE HERALD
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?
2025's most unexpected love story is going to be hell in the new novel by Sunday Times Number One Bestseller R.F. Kuang. Coming August 2025.
'Katabasis is more than a novel to savor. This book is an experience. I envy those who get to read it for the first time' REBECCA ROSS
'A witty, gory, harrowing ride' LEIGH BARDUGO
'Literary super-stardom doesn't seem too far out of her reach now.' THE HERALD
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?
2025's most unexpected love story is going to be hell in the new novel by Sunday Times Number One Bestseller R.F. Kuang. Coming August 2025.
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Recent graduate Alice Law has sacrificed everything to pursue her studies in analytic magick and a recommendation from Professor Grimes will be crucial to her success. When he dies in an accident, she is determined not to let that stand in her way and embarks on a journey into Hell to find him, but must team up with her rival Peter to do so. In an atmospheric narrative that encompasses elements of mythology, philosophy and mathematical theory, Kuang presents a cruel but bureaucratic underworld in which her protagonists face dangers as well as challenges to their perception of academia.
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