R. F. Kuang: Katabasis

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Bestselling literary superstar R. F. Kuang joins us for one night only on the Vancouver stop of her Katabasis tour!

Hot off the trail of her 2023 novel, Yellowface—an instant New York Times bestseller which has now been optioned by Lionsgate TV—Katabasis is a dark academia fantasy in which two graduate students must put aside their rivalry and journey to Hell to save their professor’s soul—perhaps at the cost of their own.

With nothing but the tales of Orpheus and Dante to guide them, enough chalk to draw the Pentagrams necessary for their spells, and the burning desire to make all their academic trauma mean anything, rivals Alice Law and Peter Murdoch must set off across Hell to save a man they don’t even like: their thesis advisor, Professor Jacob Grimes.

Get your signed copy of this coveted new release. The cost of the ticket and book bundle includes:

One (1) pre-signed deluxe limited edition copy of Katabasis.
A custom Canadian tour stamp (available at a table in the lobby; stamp your copy of Katabasis or other R.F. Kuang books!)

Rebecca can personalize only one book per person—either a pre-signed Katabasis or one (1) backlist title.
No photos are allowed in the signing line.

The author of Babel and The Poppy War trilogy joins us for an enchanting evening of conversation with Michelle Cyca, and audience Q+A, at the Granville Island Stage (1585 Johnston St) on September 13.

Presented with the support of HarperCollins Canada.

Event Participants:

Michelle Cyca

MICHELLE CYCA is a senior editor for The Narwhal and a contributing writer to The Walrus. Her literary criticism and books coverage appears in Quill & Quire, The Globe & Mail, The Tyee and the Vancouver Sun. Michelle is a board member for Upstart & Crow, a non-profit society and literary incubator based on Granville Island, and the chair of tâpwêwin media, an independent, Indigenous-led publishing non-profit. She is a member of the Muskeg Lake Cree Nation in Treaty 6, and she lives and works in Vancouver on unceded Musqueam territory.

R.F. Kuang

REBECCA F. KUANG is the #1 New York Times and #1 Sunday Times bestselling author of the Poppy War trilogy, Babel: An Arcane History, Yellowface, and Katabasis (forthcoming). Her work has won the Nebula, Locus, Crawford, and British Book Awards. She was named to the 2023 Time100 Next list and the Forbes 30 Under 30 Class of 2024. A Marshall Scholar, she has an MPhil in Chinese Studies from Cambridge and an MSc in Contemporary Chinese Studies from Oxford. She is now pursuing a PhD in East Asian Languages and Literatures at Yale, where she researches Sinophone literature and Asian American literature.