The Fifth Season Av N. K. Jemisin

Fifth Season Winner of the 2016 Hugo Award for Best Novel. This is the way the world ends... for the last time. A season of endings has begun.It starts with the great red rift across the heart of the world's sole continent, spewing ash Winner of the 2016 Hugo Award for Best Novel. This is the way the world ends... for the last time. A season of endings has begun.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. In a post-apocalyptic world plagued by natural diasters, Essun lives in a small comunity barricaded against the outside world. When her husband relizes that she and her children are orogenes with the ability to manipulate seismic energy, he kills their son and kidnaps their daughter. Against the backdrop of the end of the world, Essun follows, beginning an odyssey which will not end until her daughter is safe.