Following on from the bestselling The City We Became, the concluding part of N.K. Jemisin’s Great Cities Duology finds New York City on the edge of peril, as a new candidate for mayor, wielding the populist rhetoric of gentrification and xenophobia, gains ground.
Three-time Hugo Award-winning and New York Times bestselling author N.K. Jemisin crafts "a glorious fantasy" (Neil Gaiman) - a story of culture, identity, magic, and myths in contemporary New York City, in the final book of the Great Cities Duology.
Every great city has a soul. A human avatar that embodies their city's heart and wields its magic. New York? She's got six.
But all is not well in the city that never sleeps. Though Brooklyn, Manny, Bronca, Venezia, Padmini, and Neek have temporarily managed to stop the Woman in White from invading--and destroying the entire universe in the process--the mysterious capital "E" Enemy has more subtle powers at her disposal. A new candidate for mayor wielding the populist rhetoric of gentrification, xenophobia, and "law and order" may have what it takes to change the very nature of New York itself and take it down from the inside.
In order to defeat him, and the Enemy who holds his purse strings, the avatars will have to join together with the other Great Cities of the world in order to bring her down for good and protect their world from complete destruction.
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
ISBN: 9780356512723
Number of pages: 384
Weight: 263 g
Dimensions: 194 x 124 x 30 mm
Hopeful and enthralling, The World We Make is more evidence of [Jemisin's] ferocious talent - Esquire
The World We Make is the conclusion to NK Jemisin's duology that she began in The City We Became. New York is fully personified: the city and its five boroughs are all represented by avatars. They're... More
Wow! That was phenomenal! I’m absolutely blown away by the creativity and imagination of this author. And the fact that they adapted the original concept, because the real world is so crazy, and still managed to hit... More
‘Every great city has a soul. A human avatar that embodies their city's heart and wields its magic. New York? She's got six. But all is not well in the city that never sleeps.’
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