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Underspin

The bruising, tender, intimate debut novel about the rise and fall of a table tennis superstar - 'Challengers but make it table tennis' Lit Hub

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Underspin

De: E Y Zhao
Narrado por: Austin Ku
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Ryan Lo begins playing table tennis at age eight. His brilliant but ruthless coach sees a talent in him that might be nurtured into greatness.

Through an adolescence marked by hours of practice, matches away from home, clandestine relationships and a determination to win, Ryan ascends to the highest echelons of the game, just as he was supposed to.

But here he is now, dead before his twenty-fifth birthday, leaving grief and confusion in his wake.

Ryan Lo was meant to be great. What happened?

Underspin delves beneath the pressure that forges a champion, and the vulnerability that makes a coming of age: the crackling intensity of a match, the push and pull of first love, and the great injustices committed within our closest relationships.

'‘Challengers, but make it table tennis' Lit Hub, 'Most Anticipated Books of 2025'
'An eruption of a debut . . . with meticulous precision and tremendous heart' Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, author of Chain-Gang All-Stars
'A superior force to be reckoned with' Neel Mukherjee, author of The Lives of Others and Choice
'A kaleidoscopic novel . . . Zhao's prose is a marvel' Rob Franklin, author of Great Black Hope

© E Y Zhao 2026 (P) Penguin Audio 2026

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Underspin is as zippy as an Olympic final
A staggeringly good debut, written with élan, compassion and wit, that takes the world of professional table-tennis and serves us a story about prestige, abuse, ambition, loyalty and the terrible results of feeling surveilled by the eye of high expectations. (Kaliane Bradley)
Zhao's Underspin is an eruption of a debut. This novel displays a wondrous ability that renders both the central sport and lives that weave around it with meticulous precision and tremendous heart. The beauty of sport the spirit of desire and the sacrifice required for greatness are all captured here in this stunner. (Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah)
A complex and dynamic tragedy, carefully rendering the many lives that are drawn into the orbit of a rising star. Zhao, much like Underspin’s protagonist, wields great talent and skill (Nicola Dinan)
Beautifully written, funny, and tragic, Underspin is a triumph of a novel
E.Y. Zhao arrives on the literary scene like Minerva emerging from the head of Zeus: fully formed, formidable, and a superior force to be reckoned with. Who knew the world needed a table-tennis novel? Except that it is not a table tennis novel, or not just one – it is, indelibly, what the novel has always been about: the tangle of human life; error, power, damage, striving; the complicated ties that connect us in a web at once tensile, tough, and frangible. (Neel Mukherjee)
Challengers, but make it table tennis . . . I love a character portrait and I love a bildungsroman and I love a sports story that isn't really about sports.
Like Challengers did to tennis last year, Underspin might do for table tennis. Zhao’s debut is wildly ambitious and searingly brilliant, jolting the reader with devastation, nostalgia, embarrassment, prestige, and sex—all in a completely unexpected field. Underspin is meaty with brain and brawn, radically alive in surprising ways. A tremendous writer of fiction is born
Zhao’s finest victory is encapsulating both the highest highs and lowest lows of Ryan’s life with the same amount of complexity, nuance, and detail. Underspin showcases the pressure, isolation, and loneliness of high-level sports . . . [A] smashing debut
Andre Agassi's Open meets Jennifer Egan's A Visit From the Goon Squad in this wildly exciting, whipsmart and beautiful novel of a tragic table tennis star, told by those who were closest to him. Mobile, adventurous, and deeply imaginative, it's a stunner of a debut
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