Description
This Is A Dark Academia Fantasy In Which Two Rival Cambridge Graduate Students Descend Into Hell To Retrieve Their Dead Supervisor. It Is Written For Readers Of Literary Fantasy And Campus Fiction, And The Tone Is Clever, Bleakly Funny, And Intellectually Demanding In The Best Way.
R. F. Kuang, Author Of Babel And Yellowface, Builds A Hell Governed By Logic, Paradox, And Academic Politics. Alice Law Has Sacrificed Her Health, Her Relationships And Most Of Her Sanity To Work With Professor Grimes – And Now That He Is Dead, Possibly Through Her Own Fault, She Is Going After Him. Her Rival Peter Murdoch Comes Too. What Follows Is Part Underworld Journey, Part Sharp Satire Of Academia, And Part Unexpected Love Story.
- From The Number One Bestselling Author Of Babel And Yellowface
- Dark Academia Fantasy Compared To Dante’S Inferno And Piranesi
- A Sunday Times Number One Bestseller With Screen Rights Already Optioned
- Rich World-Building Grounded In Philosophy, Logic And Magic Theory
- Strong Appeal For Fantasy Readers Who Want Literary Depth
Readers Come For The Premise And Stay For The Argument The Book Is Making About Ambition And Cost. It Is A Flagship Fantasy Title That Anchors The Genre Section Well.
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