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Katabasis, noun, Ancient Greek. The story of a heros 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.

2025s 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.

About the Author: Rebecca F. Kuang

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.   aFiction  aCollege teachers—Death—Fiction   aGraduate students—Fiction  cLEN  2ddc  00102ddc40708FICaMAINbMAINcGENd2026-07-21ePurchasedg550.00i3113,2026/07/21l2m4oF KUA/KApE1103075q2026-10-23r2026-09-10 17:57:23s2026-09-10w2026-07-21yLEN  c198929d198929