Ketabasis

Katabasis, noun, Ancient Greek:

The story of a hero's 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.

2025's most unexpected love story is going to be hell in the new novel by New York Times #1 Bestseller R.F. Kuang. Coming August 2025!

Rebecca F. Kuang is the #1 New York Times and #1 Sunday Times bestselling author of the Poppy War trilogy, Babel: An Arcane History, and Yellowface. Her work has won the Nebula, Locus, Crawford, and British Book Awards. A Marshall Scholar, 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, where she studies diaspora, contemporary Sinophone literature, and Asian American literature.

• Publisher: Harper Voyager
  
• Publish Date: August 26, 2025
  
• Pages: 560
  
• Language: English
  
• Type: Hardcover
  
• EAN/UPC: 9780063021471
  
• BISAC Categories: Fantasy - Historical, Fantasy - Romantic, Romance - Fantasy, Gothic