Katabasis

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R F Kuang

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This product will be released on 3rd September, 2025

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Katabasis, noun, Ancient Greek. The story of a hero's descent to the underworld.

Two academic rivals from Cambridge must travel to hell to rescue the soul of their advisor. Getting there was easy. Surviving it ²and each other ²is another thing entirely.

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.

Author Biography:

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 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.

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September 3rd, 2025

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