Winner of the Hugo Award for Best Novel

The second book in the record-breaking triple Hugo Award-winning trilogy

The season of endings grows darker, as civilization fades into the long cold night.

Essun has found shelter, but not her missing daughter. Instead there is Alabaster Tenring, destroyer of the world, with a request only Essun can grant.

Praise for this trilogy:

'Amazing' Ann Leckie

'Breaks uncharted ground' Library Journal

'Beautiful' Nnedi Okorafor

'Astounding' NPR

'Brilliant' Washington Post

'Heartbreaking, wholly unexpected' Brian Staveley

'Awesome' Book Smugglers

'A powerful story of hope and survival' The Root

The Broken Earth trilogy begins with The Fifth Season, continues in The Obelisk Gate and concludes with The Stone Sky - out now.

Also by N. K. Jemisin:

The Inheritance trilogy

The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms

The Broken Kingdoms

The Kingdom of Gods

The Dreamblood Duology

The Killing Moon

The Shadowed Sun