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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 savour. This book is an experience. I envy those who get to read it for the first time – REBECCA ROSS A witty, gory,...
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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 savour. 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
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 – and each other – is 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.
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ISBN: 9780008501877
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 26 August 2025
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: HarperVoyager
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 25.0mm
Width: 153.0mm
Height: 234.0mm
Weight: 270g
Pages: 400
About the Author
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.
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