The Fifth Season

At the end of the world, a woman must hide her secret power and find her kidnapped daughter in this "intricate and extraordinary" Hugo Award winning novel of power, oppression, and revolution. (The New York Times)

This is the way the world ends. . .for the last time.

It starts with the 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.

Read the first book in the critically acclaimed, three-time Hugo award-winning trilogy by NYT bestselling author N. K. Jemisin.

Publisher: Orbit
Published: 08/04/2015
Pages: 512
Weight: 0.9lbs
Size: 8.10h x 5.40w x 1.40d
ISBN: 9780316229296


Award: Nebula Awards - Nominee


Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 06/15/2015 pg. 64
Publishers Weekly 06/29/2015
Romantic Times 08/01/2015 pg. 52 - Excellent
New York Times Book Review 08/09/2015 pg. 20
New York Times Book Review 08/16/2015 pg. 26
Publishers Weekly Best Books 11/02/2015 pg. 36
NY Times Notable Bks of Year 12/06/2015 pg. 26
Kirkus Reviews 01/01/0001

About the Author
N. K. Jemisin is a Brooklyn author who won the Hugo Award for Best Novel for The Fifth Season, which was also a New York Times Notable Book of 2015. She previously won the Locus Award for her first novel, The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms, and her short fiction and novels have been nominated multiple times for Hugo, World Fantasy, Nebula, and RT Reviewers' Choice awards, and shortlisted for the Crawford and the James Tiptree, Jr. awards. She is a science fiction and fantasy reviewer for the New York Times, and you can find her online at nkjemisin.com.