The Obelisk Gate: The Broken Earth, Book 2, WINNER OF THE HUGO AWARD

· Broken Earth Trilogy Book 2 · Hachette UK
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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

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4.6
73 reviews
Chimaobi Ahamba
August 25, 2016
Jemisin is no novice at world building. Every book she writes, every short story she pens has an original cast of characters in a well developed world with it's own set of mirabilia and lore. Myths, plots and legends - none of them shopworn. I can't get enough of her writing.
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Linda M.
February 27, 2017
N K Jemisin is, quite simply, the best voice in SFF I have ever read and she delivers thrillingly, painfully, hilariously, thoughtfully and thoroughly once again with The Broken Earth books.
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Shaun Newsome
February 7, 2018
Amazing story, very unique take on the setting and how it affects the world and people. Loved it!
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About the author

N. K. Jemisin is the first author in history to win three consecutive Best Novel Hugo Awards, for her Broken Earth trilogy. She is a MacArthur 2020 Genius Grant Fellow. Her work has won the Nebula and Locus Awards, and the first book in her current Great Cities series, The City We Became, is a New York Times bestseller. Among other critical work, she was formerly the speculative book reviewer at the New York Times. In her spare time she's a gamer and gardener, responsible for saving the world from Ozymandias, her dangerously intelligent ginger cat, and his destructive sidekick Magpie. Essays and fiction excerpts are available at nkjemisin.com.

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