Katabasis

De: R.F. Kuang

Narrado por: Morag Sims, Will Watt

'Katabasis is a formidable, timeless work, destined to be a modern classic' OLIVIE BLAKE

'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

'A witty, gory, harrowing ride' LEIGH BARDUGO

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

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.

©2025 R. F. Kuang (P)2025 HarperCollins Publishers

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'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' 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

'This journey to the underworld is delivered with heretical glee' Guardian

‘Kuang’s latest is a sprawling, erudite tale of magic set in Dante’s Inferno-esque underworld, teeming with intelligence, ideas and humour’ Marie Claire

‘Mind-bending fantasy’ Grazia

‘It’s Dante’s Inferno meets The Secret History and it’s at the top of our read-next pile’ Elle

Katabasis is a Radio 2 Book Club Summer Selection, Elle's Book of the Month, and included in the Guardian's round-up of most anticipated 2025 fiction.

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