"Intricate and extraordinary." - New York Times on The Fifth Season (A New York Times Notable Book of 2015)

WINNER OF THE HUGO AWARD FOR BEST NOVEL 2016

This is the way the world ends...for the last time.
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...

2017 Hugo Award Finalist for Best Novel
"Intricate and extraordinary." - New York Times on The Fifth Season

Continuing the trilogy that began with the award-winning The Fifth Season

• Winner of the Hugo Award
  
• Shortlisted for the Nebula, Audie, and Locus Awards
• The inaugural Wired.com book club book
• New York Times Notable Book of 2015
  

This is the way the world ends, for the last time.
The season of endings grows darker, as civilization fades into the long cold...

"Intricate and extraordinary." - New York Times on The Fifth Season
THIS IS THE WAY THE WORLD ENDS... FOR THE LAST TIME.

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...