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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...

An Audiofile Earphones Award Winner, featuring dual narration from Morag Sims and Will Watt 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...

Alice Law hat ihr ganzes Leben lang nur ein Ziel verfolgt: die Beste auf dem Feld der Analytischen Magie zu werden. Kurzerhand beschließt sie, ihrem Professor in die Hölle zu folgen. Mit den Berichten von Orpheus, Dante und T. S. Eliot im Gepäck brechen die beiden auf, um die Seele ihres Mentors zu retten - welchen Preis sie dafür auch zahlen mögen.

Alice Law ha sempre avuto un solo obiettivo: diventare una delle menti più brillanti nel campo della magia. Per realizzarlo ha sacrificato molto: l'orgoglio, la salute, l'amore e, soprattutto, la sua salute mentale. Tutto per lavorare a Cambridge con il professor Jacob Grimes, il più grande mago del mondo. Ma poi il professore muore in un incidente magico di cui lei è forse l'unica responsabile.

Alice Law hat ihr ganzes Leben lang nur ein Ziel verfolgt: die Beste auf dem Feld der Analytischen Magie zu werden. Kurzerhand beschließt sie, ihrem Professor in die Hölle zu folgen. Mit den Berichten von Orpheus, Dante und T. S. Eliot im Gepäck brechen die beiden auf, um die Seele ihres Mentors zu retten - welchen Preis sie auch zahlen mögen.

Thirteenth-century Europe has been saved from annihilation at the hands of the Mongols, to be sure, but new and terrible threats are at hand: political and religious turmoil threaten to turn the warriors' world upside down once more. Painted against a rich backdrop of medieval mysticism and Russian folklore, Katabasis weaves together the tales of victor and victim alike in a fearless exploration of what it means not just to survive, but to truly live again.

Alice Law tem apenas um objetivo: se tornar uma das mentes mais brilhantes da área de magia analítica. Ela sacrificou tudo: orgulho, vida amorosa e até mesmo a sanidade. Abriu mão do que foi preciso para entrar no programa de pós-graduação de Cambridge e trabalhar ao lado do professor Jacob Grimes, o maior mago do mundo.

The first novel in a dazzling epic fantasy trilogy inspired by Japanese folklore and Studio Ghibli, set within a mythical archipelago brimming with dragons and Sun Spirits, high-tech hackers and bubble tea. Life is hard for the inhabitants of Rainshadow City, a place where poverty and corruption...

Explores the many theurgic themes and events in the Odyssey and the Iliad Analyzes the writings of Neoplatonists Porphyry and Proclus, showing how both describe the technical ritual praxis of theurgy in Homeric terms Examines the methods of telestikē, a form of theurgic statue...