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The stone sky / N. K. Jemisin.

By: Contributor(s): Series: Broken earth. 3 | Jemisin, N. K. Broken earth ; 3.Publication details: London : Orbit, 2017.Description: 416 pages : map ; 20 cmISBN:
  • 9780356508689 (paperback)
  • 0356508684 (pbk.)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 813/.6 23
Awards:
  • Winner 2018 Locus Award for fantasy novel. Winner 2018 Hugo Award for Best Novel.
Summary: The Moon will soon return. Whether this heralds the destruction of humankind or something worse will depend on two women. Essun has inherited the power of Alabaster Tenring. With it, she hopes to find her daughter Nassun and forge a world in which every orogene child can grow up safe. For Nassun, her mother's mastery of the Obelisk Gate comes too late. She has seen the evil of the world, and accepted what her mother will not admit: that sometimes what is corrupt cannot be cleansed, only destroyed.
List(s) this item appears in: Awarded Fantasy Fiction
Holdings
Item type Home library Collection Call number Vol info Status Date due Barcode Item reserves
Book Melbourne Athenaeum Library Fiction - Fantasy JEM Broken Bk.3 Available 068005
Total reserves: 0

Includes an excerpt of: Provence by Ann Leckie.

The Moon will soon return. Whether this heralds the destruction of humankind or something worse will depend on two women. Essun has inherited the power of Alabaster Tenring. With it, she hopes to find her daughter Nassun and forge a world in which every orogene child can grow up safe. For Nassun, her mother's mastery of the Obelisk Gate comes too late. She has seen the evil of the world, and accepted what her mother will not admit: that sometimes what is corrupt cannot be cleansed, only destroyed.

Winner 2018 Locus Award for fantasy novel.
Winner 2018 Hugo Award for Best Novel.

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