Katabasis: New from the SUNDAY TIMES best-selling author of BABEL and YELLOWFACE: 2025’s INSTANT No.1 SUNDAY TIMES best-seller from the author of YELLOWFACE

Author: R.F. Kuang

ISBN: 9780008501877

Price: Rs. 664.05 • ✓ 100% Genuine Publisher Edition

Book Overview

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 Read more

Browse this title within our Children's Books collection. Edition details: English, 368 pages. Reference ISBN: 9780008501877.

About the Author

R.F. Kuang is the award-winning #1 New York Times and Sunday Times bestselling author of Babel, Yellowface, and The Poppy War trilogy.

Why Readers Pick This Edition

• You’ll love Katabasis for the way it blends razor-sharp intellect with pure narrative adrenaline. R.F. Kuang drops you into a darkly imaginative underworld where magic, philosophy, rivalry, and desire collide. Watching Alice and Peter clash, collaborate, and unravel in Hell is gripping, funny, and unexpectedly tender. It’s a smart fantasy with emotional depth, page-turning stakes, and a love story you won’t see coming.
• Published by HarperVoyager / HarperCollins.
• Language: English.
• Page count: 368.

Catalog Description

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...

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