Name: Katabasis: A Novel
Price: 520.00 ZAR
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Author: R. F. Kuang
ISBN: 9780063446243

Type

Physical Book

Author

R. F. Kuang

Publisher

Harper Voyager

Language

English

Pages

560

Format

Hardcover

ISBN13

9780063446243

Katabasis: A Novel

R. F. Kuang (Author) · Harper Voyager · Hardcover

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Synopsis "Katabasis: A Novel"

Dante's Inferno meets Susanna Clarke's Piranesi in this all-new dark academia fantasy from R. F. Kuang, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Babel and Yellowface, in which two graduate students must put aside their rivalry and journey to Hell to save their professor's soul--perhaps at the cost of their own. Katabasis, noun, Ancient Greek: The story of a hero's descent to the underworldAlice Law has only ever had one goal: to become one of the brightest minds in the field of Magick. She has sacrificed everything to make that a reality: her pride, her health, her love life, and most definitely her sanity. All to work with Professor Jacob Grimes at Cambridge, the greatest magician in the world.That is, until he dies in a magical accident that could possibly be her fault.Grimes is now in Hell, and she's going in after him. Because his recommendation could hold her very future in his now incorporeal hands and even death is not going to stop the pursuit of her dreams....Nor will the fact that her rival, Peter Murdoch, has come to the very same conclusion.With nothing but the tales of Orpheus and Dante to guide them, enough chalk to draw the Pentagrams necessary for their spells, and the burning desire to make all the academic trauma mean anything, they set off across Hell to save a man they don't even like.But Hell is not like the storybooks say, Magick isn't always the answer, and there's something in Alice and Peter's past that could forge them into the perfect allies...or lead to their doom.

R. F. Kuang

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Chinese-American writer and translator, Rebecca F. Kuang was born in Guangzhou, China, on May 29, 1996. At the age of four, she moved to the United States with her parents.

Kuang studied History at Georgetown University, later specializing in Chinese Studies and Contemporary Chinese Studies at Cambridge and Oxford, and earning a PhD in East Asian Languages and Literatures at Yale University.

As a writer, Kuang is known for her fantasy novels, which have earned her nominations for prestigious awards in the genre such as the Hugo, Nebula, Locus, and World Fantasy. Her works include the Poppy War trilogy, Babel (Nebula Award 2022), and Yellow.

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