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Katabasis, noun, Ancient Greek. The story of a hero's descent to the underworld.
Grad student Alice Law has only ever had one goal: to become the brightest mind in the field of analytic magick.
But the only person who can make her dream come true is dead and – inconveniently – in Hell. And Alice, along with her biggest rival Peter Murdoch, is going after him.
But Hell is not as the philosophers claim, its rules are upside-down, and if she’s going to get out of there alive, she and Peter will have to work together.
That’s if they can agree on anything.
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R. F. Kuang es la autora superventas número 1 del New York Times de Babel y ha sido nominada a los premios Hugo, Nebula, Locus y World Fantasy por la trilogía La Guerra de la Amapola. Ha obtenido una beca en el prestigioso programa Marshall, es traductora y ha cursado másteres de Estudios de Chino en Cambridge y Estudios de Chino Contemporáneo en Oxford. Actualmente continúa sus estudios en Yale.