A bravura example of literary world-building and rich, rounded characterisation, the opening instalment of The Broken Earth trilogy conjures up an immersive post-apocalyptic dystopia for the ages.
Winner of the 2016 Hugo Award for Best Novel
Shortlisted for the World Fantasy, Nebula, Kitschies, Audie and Locus Awards
Book 1 in the record-breaking triple Hugo-Award-winning trilogy, The Broken Earth.
This is the way the world ends… for the last time.
It starts with a great red rift across the heart of the world's sole continent, spewing ash that blots out the sun.
It starts with death, with a murdered son and a missing daughter.
It starts with betrayal, and long dormant wounds rising up to fester.
This is the Stillness, a land long familiar with catastrophe, where the power of the earth is wielded as a weapon. And where there is no mercy.
Breathtakingly ambitious, blisteringly brilliant and peopled with a cast of unforgettable characters, The Broken Earth trilogy - beginning with The Fifth Season, continuing in The Obelisk Gate and concluding with The Stone Sky – is the first series to win the Hugo best novel award three years in a row. A ground-breaking masterwork of contemporary fantasy fiction, this is a series not to be missed.
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
ISBN: 9780356508191
Number of pages: 512
Weight: 349 g
Dimensions: 196 x 126 x 38 mm
Jemisin brilliantly illustrates the belief that, yes, imaginative world-building is a vital element of fantasy - but also that every character is a world unto herself - NPR
Fantasy novels often provide a degree of escapism: a good thing, for any reader who has something worth escaping. Too often, though, that escape comes through a fictional world that erases rather than solves the more complex problems of our own... In Jemisin's work, nature is not unchangeable or inevitable. The Fifth Season invites us to imagine a dismantling of the earth in both the literal and the metaphorical sense, and suggests the possibility of a richer and more fundamental escape - The New York Times
Heartbreaking, wholly unexpected, and technically virtuosic, THE FIFTH SEASON is a tour-de-force. I felt every shock--and the book is packed with them--in my marrow. It's no exaggeration to say that Jemisin expands the range of what great fantasy can be - Brian Staveley
If you like science fiction and fantasy but you haven't read N. K. Jemisin's work yet then you are in for a treat. Jemisin's first series, the Inheritance trilogy, is an epic fantasy full of emotional... More
"This is what you must remember: the ending of one story is just the beginning of another. This has happened before, after all. People die. Old orders pass. New societies are born. When we say 'the world has... More
One if the easiest 5 star ratings I’ve ever given. This book was so intelligent; so ground-breaking (no pun intended), so unique and gut-wrenching; real and raw and true; that I’m just sitting here, stunned with tears... More
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