Katabasis

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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. The much anticipated new title from #1 New York Times bestselling author R.F. Kuang. Author of the critically acclaimed Poppy Wars Trilogy, Yellowface and Babel.

Praise for R.F. Kuang’s Katabasis

‘Rich with allusion and illusion, Kuang crafts a witty, gorey, harrowing ride that thoroughly roasts the
perils and power structures of academia, while never losing sight of what it means to have a fragile,
human heart’ Leigh Bardugo, #1 New York Times bestselling author

‘A spellbinding and poignant story that had me riveted to the pages, R.F. Kuang’s 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, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Divine Rivals

‘This is a book of ideas, and as such, Kuang’s creativity shines, her vehicle for story a prose that’s
smooth as butter. Katabasis is a formidable, timeless work, destined to be a modern classic’ Olivie
Blake, New York Times bestselling author of The Atlas Six