# The Fifth Season (The Broken Earth)

**Author(s):** N. K. Jemisin
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**Genres:** fantasy, dystopian, sci-fi
**Pages:** 512
**Publisher:** Orbit
**Published:** Tue Aug 04 2015 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
**Language:** en
**ISBN-13:** 9780316229296
**ISBN-10:** 0316229296
**URL:** https://www.sagechimp.com/books/the-fifth-season-the-broken-earth

## Description

**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.

## SageChimp reader verdict

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**Themes:** Betrayal