R. F. Kuang

eBook, ePUB

Katabasis (eBook, ePUB)

Beschreibung

Prepare for one hell of a journey...

'A big, bold fantasy romp' GUARDIAN

'R.F. Kuang is making magic' ELLE

'[A] truly original and spellbinding hero's-journey story' VOGUE

'I devoured it' RED

One of the BBC's 25 best books of 2025

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 No.1 Sunday Times bestselling novel by R.F. Kuang.

'Literary super-stardom doesn't seem too far out of her reach' THE HERALD

'Mind-bending fantasy' GRAZIA

Technische Details

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• mit Kopierschutz
• Größe: 2.72MB
• FamilySharing(5)

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Autor

R.F Kuang is the author of The Poppy War Trilogy, Babel: An Arcane History, and Yellowface. Her work has won the Nebula, Locus, and British Book Awards. She is pursuing a PhD in East Asian Language and Literature at Yale.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: HarperCollins Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 560
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. August 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780008501884
• Artikelnr.: 70210535

Rezensionen

"Rich with allusion and illusion, Kuang crafts a witty, gory, 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." - #1 New York Times bestselling author, Leigh Bardugo

"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

"'Katabasis' shines with devastatingly real characters and absorbing world building." - New York

Times

"A must-read for fans of Naomi Novik, Olivie Blake, and Lev Grossman's scholastic fantasies, with explorations of purpose, grief, and relationships that open the novel to a more universal audience." - Library Journal (starred review)

"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



"This is a tightly constructed novel that aims a clear lens on academia, with both its faults and its virtues. The heady draw of discovery is ever-present, even if what Alice is discovering is Hell. A learned, literary manifesto on academia-and its darkness."
- Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

"What an adventure! Katabasis is a tour de force - literate, witty, and wise, it thrills and delights all the way to a hugely satisfying conclusion. I enjoyed it tremendously." - Gareth Brown, international bestselling author of The Book of Doors


"Wickedly sharp and unexpectedly sweet, going to hell has never been this entertaining." - Shannon Chakraborty, New York Times bestselling author of The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi

"A balance of literary deep thinking, pop commercial fun, and outrageous audacity. Kuang uniquely and authentically writes the Academy with the right mix of love and rage." - Rebecca Roanhorse, New York Times bestselling author

"A philosophical tribute to love, Katabasis is the latest master turn by a master novelist. Under the surface of R.F. Kuang's rigorous treatment of logic and hell is an endless reservoir of vitality and a deep thirst for life. This timeless search for meaning is for any reader struggling to find purpose in a deeply flawed world." - Vaishnavi Patel, New York Times bestselling author of Kaikeyi

"There can be no other explanation: Kuang is a wizard. Each character, each sentence, each chapter of Katabasis is like an exquisitely crafted incantation that only Kuang herself could have cast. I was ensorcelled from page one, and once I started reading it I found myself unable to think about anything else until long after I turned the final page. That's when I realized that Kuang had me right where she wanted me all along: Completely spellbound... and loving every minute of it." - John Joseph Adams, series editor of Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy