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-journeystory’VOGUE

‘I devoured it’RED

Katabasis, noun, Ancient Greek. The story of a hero’sdescent to the underworld.

Grad student Alice Law has only ever had one goal: to becomethe brightest mind in the field of analytic magick.

But the only person who can make her dream come true is deadand inconveniently in Hell. And Alice, along with her biggest rival PeterMurdoch, is going after him.

But Hell is not as the philosophers claim, its rules areupside-down, and if shes going to get out of there alive, she and Peter willhave to work together.

Thats if they can agree on anything.

Will they triumph, or kill each other trying?

2025s most unexpected love story is going to be hell in thenew No.1Sunday Timesbestselling novel by R.F. Kuang.

‘Literary super-stardom doesn’t seem too far out ofher reach’THE HERALD

Mind-bending fantasyGRAZIA

About the Author

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