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The Obelisk Gate

The Broken Earth, Book 2, WINNER OF THE HUGO AWARD

N K Jemisin author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Little, Brown Book Group

Published:18th Aug '16

Should be back in stock very soon

The Obelisk Gate cover

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 withThe Fifth Season, continues in The Obelisk Gateand 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

Exceptional . . . those who anxiously awaited this sequel will find the only problem is that the wait must begin again once the last page is turned -- Library Journal (starred review)
Utterly gripping . . . extraordinary . . . a complex and intricate world of warring powers, tangled morals, and twisting motivations -- Publishers Weekly (starred review)
A lightning rod around which storm clouds gather to burst and strike in the trilogy's final book next year * NPR’s Best Books of 2016 *

  • Winner of Hugo Award Best Novel category 2017 (UK)

ISBN: 9780356508368

Dimensions: 197mm x 129mm x 28mm

Weight: 310g

448 pages