Katabasis (Standard Edition) (Hardcover)

Regular price £25.00

by R. F. Kuang 

Description

Two graduate students must put aside their rivalry and journey to Hell to save their professor’s soul—perhaps at the cost of their own.
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Alice Law has only ever had one goal: to become one of the brightest minds in the field of Magick. She has sacrificed everything to make that a reality: her pride, her health, her love life, and most definitely her sanity. All to work with Professor Jacob Grimes at Cambridge, the greatest magician in the world.

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That is, until he dies in a magical accident that could possibly be her fault.

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Grimes is now in Hell, and she’s going in after him. Because his recommendation could hold her very future in his now incorporeal hands and even death is not going to stop the pursuit of her dreams….

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Nor will the fact that her rival, Peter Murdoch, has come to the very same conclusion.

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With nothing but the tales of Orpheus and Dante to guide them, enough chalk to draw the Pentagrams necessary for their spells, and the burning desire to make all the academic trauma mean anything, they set off across Hell to save a man they don’t even like.

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But Hell is not like the storybooks say, Magick isn’t always the answer, and there’s something in Alice and Peter’s past that could forge them into the perfect allies…or lead to their doom.

About the Author

Rebecca F. Kuang is a bestselling author. Her work has won the Nebula, Locus, Crawford, and British Book Awards. A Marshall Scholar, 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, where she studies diaspora, contemporary Sinophone literature, and Asian American literature.

Product Details

Category: Fiction

Language: English

Format/Binding: Hardcover

Book Condition: New

ISBN-10: 0063446243

ISBN-13: 978-0063446243

Publisher: Harper Voyager

Date Published: August 26, 2025

Pages: 560

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