Fantasy
Katabasis
R. F. Kuang
Synopsis
Alice Law and Peter Murdoch take their academic ambitions beyond the living world. Their supervisor is dead, and finding him means descending into Hell together. The journey places two scholars in an extraordinary landscape while testing how far they will go for the authority that shapes their futures.
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Katabasis: how far would you go for academic success?
R. F. Kuang sends rival students into the underworld, making professional ambition the starting point of a fantasy descent.
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