The Fifth Season
**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 familiar with catastrophe, where the power of the earth is wielded as a weapon. And where there is no mercy. This description comes from the publisher.
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First in the Broken Earth trilogy. On a single supercontinent constantly hit by apocalyptic seasons, a powerful orogene named Essun comes home to find her son murdered and her daughter taken. A new fifth season has just begun.
Yes. The Fifth Season won the 2016 Hugo Award for Best Novel. N.K. Jemisin then won the Hugo again in 2017 for The Obelisk Gate and in 2018 for The Stone Sky, becoming the first author to win three consecutive Hugos for a trilogy.
Yes. The Fifth Season uses second-person narration for one storyline and complex world-building with a brutal recurring magical apocalypse. The first 100 pages take adjustment. Most readers find it deeply rewarding once the structure clicks.
The Fifth Season was written by N. K. Jemisin, published in 2015 by Orbit.
The Fifth Season is 512 pages in standard print editions, though page counts vary slightly between hardcover, paperback, and large-print formats.
At an average reading pace of about 250 words per minute, The Fifth Season takes most readers 8 to 11 hours to finish.
The Fifth Season is a standalone novel by N. K. Jemisin, not part of a series.
The Fifth Season is available in hardcover, paperback, ebook, and audiobook formats from Amazon, Bookshop.org, ThriftBooks, and most major bookstores.
