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The searing follow-up to 2018’s most celebrated fantasy debut – THE POPPY WAR. Rin is on the run… Haunted by the atrocity she committed to save her people, addicted to opium, and driven by the murderous commands of Phoenix, the vengeful god who has blessed Rin with her fearsome power...

The exciting end to The Poppy War trilogy, R.F. Kuang's acclaimed, award-winning epic fantasy that combines the history of 20th-century China with a gripping world of gods and monsters, to devastating, enthralling effect. After saving her nation of Nikan from foreign invaders and battling the...

From award-winning author R. F. Kuang comes Babel, a thematic response to The Secret History and a tonal retort to Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell that grapples with student revolutions, colonial resistance, and the use of language and translation as the dominating tool of the British empire...

Winner of the Reddit Fantasy Award for Best Debut 2018 ‘The best fantasy debut of 2018’ – WIRED A brilliantly imaginative epic fantasy debut, inspired by the bloody history of China’s twentieth century and filled with treachery and magic. When Rin aced the Keju – the test to find the...

C'est une histoire magistrale racontée par la mauvaise personne. June Hayward et Athena Liu ont étudié ensemble à Yale, ont déménagé à Washington après avoir obtenu leur diplôme et sont toutes les deux écrivaines, mais les similitudes s'arrêtent là. Athena est une étoile montante...

Après avoir sauvé le Nikan, Fang Runin a été trahie par ses alliés et laissée pour morte. Soutenue par le peuple et son armée du Sud, qui ont soif de vengeance, Rin combat la République du Dragon, les Hespériens colonisateurs et tous ceux qui menacent les arts chamaniques et leurs...

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK “Hard to put down, harder to forget.” — Stephen King, #1 New York Times bestselling author White lies. Dark humor. Deadly consequences… Bestselling sensation Juniper Song is not who she says she is, she didn’t write the...

Catabase, nom féminin, du grec ancien katábasis : descente du héros aux Enfers. Alice Law a tout donné pour réussir : son énergie, son temps et sa santé mentale. Doctorante en magie analytique à Cambridge, son unique objectif est d'être titularisée et légitimer ainsi son talent de...

An AudioFile Magazine Best Audiobook of 2018! Read by Audiofile Golden Voice Narrator, Emily Woo Zeller A Library Journal, Paste Magazine, and ENTROPY Best Books of 2018 pick! Washington Post "5 Best Science Fiction and Fantasy Novel of 2018" pick! A Bustle "30 Best Fiction Books of 2018" pick!...

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...

From R.F. Kuang, the acclaimed #1 New York Times bestselling author of Katabasis and Yellowface, comes a wryly humorous and profoundly moving coming-of-age novel that grapples with grief, language, and culture shock—all set against the backdrop of an unforgettable summer in Taipei. Narrated by...

THE #2 SUNDAY TIMES AND #1 NYT BESTSELLER ‘One for Philip Pullman fans’ THE TIMES ‘This one is an automatic buy’ GLAMOUR ‘Ambitious, sweeping and epic’ EVENING STANDARD ‘Razor-sharp’ DAILY MAIL ‘An ingenious fantasy about empire’ GUARDIAN 'Literary super-stardom doesn't seem...

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...

Celebrate the legacy of The Empire Strikes Back with this exciting reimagining of the timeless film featuring new perspectives from forty acclaimed authors. On May 21, 1980, Star Wars became a true saga with the release of The Empire Strikes Back. In honor of the fortieth anniversary...

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.

Rin ist ein einfaches Waisenmädchen, das im Süden des Kaiserreichs Nikan lebt. Ihre Adoptiveltern benutzen sie als billige Arbeitskraft, und um sie herum gibt es nur Armut, Drogensucht und Ödnis. Um diesem Leben zu entfliehen, setzt sie alles daran, um an der Eliteakademie von Sinegard aufgenommen zu werden. Doch auch dort wird Rin wegen ihrer Herkunft verspottet und ausgegrenzt. Da bricht ein Krieg gegen das Nachbarreich aus.

The exciting end to The Poppy War trilogy, R. F. Kuang’s acclaimed, award-winning epic fantasy that combines the history of twentieth-century China with a gripping world of gods and monsters, to devastating, enthralling effect. After saving her nation of Nikan from foreign invaders and...

Brought to you by Penguin. Celebrate the legacy of The Empire Strikes Back with this exciting reimagining of the timeless film featuring new perspectives from forty acclaimed authors. On May 21, 1980, Star Wars became a true saga with the release of The Empire Strikes Back. In honor of the...

Rin ist auf der Flucht. Noch immer verfolgen sie die Gräueltaten, die sie begangen hat, um ihr Volk zu retten. Sie ist dem Opium verfallen und folgt auf Gedeih und Verderb den tödlichen Befehlen von Phoenix, dem erbarmungslosen Gott, der Rin ihre beängstigende Kraft verliehen hat. Rins einziger Grund weiterzuleben, ist der Wunsch nach Rache an der verräterischen Kaiserin, die ihre Heimat Nikan an ihre Feinde ausgeliefert hat. Rin hat keine andere Wahl, als sich mit dem mächtigen Drachenkriegsherrn zu verbünden.

From R. F. Kuang, the #1 New York Times bestselling and award-winning author of Babel, this collection features the novels in her historical military fantasy trilogy—The Poppy War, The Dragon Republic, and The Burning God—a complete epic inspired by the bloody history of China’s twentieth...