The Fifth Season : Hugo Award Winner 2016 - Best Novel - N. K. Jemisin

The Fifth Season

Hugo Award Winner 2016 - Best Novel

By: N. K. Jemisin

Paperback | 26 July 2016 | Edition Number 1

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THIS IS THE WAY THE WORLD ENDS. AGAIN.

Three terrible things happen in a single day.

Essun, masquerading as an ordinary schoolteacher in a quiet small town, comes home to find that her husband has brutally murdered their son and kidnapped their daughter. Mighty Sanze, the empire whose innovations have been civilization's bedrock for a thousand years, collapses as its greatest city is destroyed by a madman's vengeance. And worst of all, across the heartland of the world's sole continent, a great red rift has been torn which spews ash enough to darken the sky for years. Or centuries.

But this is the Stillness, a land long familiar with struggle, and where orogenes -- those who wield the power of the earth as a weapon -- are feared far more than the long cold night. Essun has remembered herself, and she will have her daughter back.

She does not care if the world falls apart around her. Essun will break it herself, if she must, to save her daughter.

Shortlisted for the Hugo, Nebula, Locus, Kitschies and Audie awards this is the stunning first instalment in a fantasy trilogy set in a world of volcanoes and earthquakes, where the power to control the earth is the most dangerous of all. The New York Times called The Fifth Season 'intricate and extraordinary'

About the Author

N. K. Jemisin is a Brooklyn author whose short fiction and novels have been multiply nominated for the Hugo, the World Fantasy Award, and the Nebula, shortlisted for the Crawford and the Tiptree, and have won the Locus Award.
Industry Reviews
Intricate and extraordinary -- New York Times

Brilliant . . . gorgeous writing and unexpected plot twists -- Washington Post

Astounding . . . Jemisin maintains a gripping voice and an emotional core that not only carries the story through its complicated setting, but sets things up for even more staggering revelations to come -- NPR Books

A must-buy . . . breaks uncharted ground -- Library Journal (starred review)

An ambitious book with a shifting point of view and a protagonist whose full complexity doesn't become apparent till toward the end of the novel . . . Jemisin's work itself is part of a slow but definite change in sci-fi and fantasy -- Guardian

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The Fifth Season : Hugo Award Winner 2016 - Best Novel - N. K. Jemisin
The Obelisk Gate : Broken Earth Trilogy 2 - N. K. Jemisin
The Stone Sky : The Broken Earth : Book 3 - N. K. Jemisin

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