R F Kuang, best-selling author of Yellowface, Babel, and the Poppy War series, takes readers to hell in a brilliant new book about memory, identity, truth and contradiction. Alice Law has been researching Hell since the unfortunate demise of the notoriously difficult (but highly accomplished) Professor Grimes. Peter – described as a lanky, dishevelled genius – exudes the easy optimism of someone who has never known hardship. Like Alice, Peter intends to retrieve Professor Grimes from the courts of Hell. Finding Professor Grimes is a mission unto itself.