*The new book from no. 1 New York Times and no. 2 Sunday Times bestselling author R.F. Kuang

'A riot' PANDORA SYKES

'Razor-sharp' TIME

'A wild ride' STYLIST

'Darkly comic' GQ

'Satirical and humorous' COSMOPOLITAN

'Unforgettable' WOMAN & HOME

Rebecca F. Kuang is the #1 New York Times and #1 Sunday Times bestselling author of Yellowface, Babel: An Arcane History and the Poppy War trilogy. Her work has won the Nebula, Locus, Crawford, and British Book Awards. 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 studies diaspora, contemporary Sinophone literature, and Asian American literature. Her next novel is Katabasis.