Dans l'ancienne Cité-État de Gujaareh, la paix est la seule loi. Sur les toits et parmi les ombres des rues pavées attendent les collecteurs, gardiens de cette paix. Serviteurs de la Déesse des Rêves, leur devoir est de récolter la magie de l'esprit endormi et de l'utiliser pour guérir, apaiser... ou tuer ceux qui sont jugés corrompus.Mais lorsqu'une conspiration éclate au sein du temple, Éhiru, le plus célèbre des collecteurs, doit remettre en question tout ce qu'il sait. Choisira-t-il de protéger la femme qu'il a été chargé de tuer, ou regardera-t-il la ville être dévorée par la guerre et la magie ?
Winner of the 2017 Hugo Award for Best Novel Book 2 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 .
The debut series from the double Hugo Award-winning N. K. Jemisin, author of The Fifth Season For two thousand years the Arameri family has ruled the world by enslaving the very gods that created mortalkind. Now the gods are free, and the Arameri's ruthless grip is slipping. Yet they are all that stands between peace and world-spanning, unending war. Shahar, last scion of the family, must choose her loyalties. She yearns to trust Sieh, the godling she loves. Yet her duty as Arameri heir is to uphold the family's interests, even if that means using and destroying everyone she cares for. As long-suppressed rage and terrible new magics consume the world, the Maelstrom - which even gods fear - is summoned forth. Shahar and Sieh: mortal and god, lovers and enemies. Can they stand together against the chaos that threatens the kingdom of gods? The Inheritance Trilogy begins with The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms , continues in The Broken Kingdoms and concludes in The Kingdom of Gods .
An astonishing new fantasy tale from the record-breaking, triple Hugo Award-winning author of The Fifth Season. Five New Yorkers must band together to defend their city from an ancient evil in the final instalment of this stunning series by New York Times bestselling author N. K. Jemisin>
Five New Yorkers must come together in order to defend their city from an ancient evil in the first book of a stunning new series by Hugo award-winning and NYT bestselling author N. K. Jemisin. Every city has a soul. Some are as ancient as myths, and others are as new and destructive as children. New York City? She's got five. But every city also has a dark side. A roiling, ancient evil stirs beneath the earth, threatening to destroy the city and her five newborn avatars unless they can come together and stop it once and for all.
