Katabasis

Name: Katabasis
Author: R. F. Kuang

R. F. Kuang

Published
Fantasy
HarperCollins
2025

Two fiercely competitive Cambridge doctoral students in magic descend into hell to retrieve their supervisor. Their academic ambitions and resentment of one another collide with the rules of the dead.

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