Research Catalog

Title

The fifth season / N. K. Jemisin.

Author

Jemisin, N. K.

Publication

New York : Orbit, 2015.

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Details

Description

498 pages : map; 21 cm.

Summary

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 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.

Series Statement

• The broken earth ; Book One
• Jemisin, N. K. Broken earth ; book 1.

Alternative Title

5th season

Subjects

• End of the world > Fiction
• Black author
• American fiction > African American women authors
• Fantasy fiction, American
• Mothers and daughters > Fiction

Genre/Form

• Apocalyptic fiction.
• Fantasy fiction, American.
• American fiction – African American women authors.

Call Number

Sc D 15-1416

ISBN

• 9780316229296 (trade pbk.)
• 0316229296 (trade pbk.)

LCCN

2015002138

OCLC

900869607

Author

Jemisin, N. K.

Title

The fifth season / N. K. Jemisin.

Publisher

New York : Orbit, 2015.

Edition

First edition.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

The broken earth ; Book One

Jemisin, N. K. Broken earth ; book 1.

Local Subject

Black author.