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The fifth season novel launches the American NK Jemisin’s Broken World trilogy.
A fantasy novel
NK Jemisin: The Fifth Season. Broken Earth 1 (The Fifth Season. The Broken Earth 1). Mika Kivimäki, Finland. Elm. 480 s.
World is broken, and it breaks down all the time.
American NK Jemisinin the origins of dystopia are familiar in many ways: people’s selfishness, carelessness, and division into unequal social classes destroy the world. However, Jemisini’s approach to his subject is insightful and multi-level, less underlining his message.
Fifth season kick off A broken world The trilogy, in which all three books have won the major Hugo Prize for Sci-Fi and Fantasy Literature – in addition to Jemis being the first black author to win the prize, is the first book series in the trilogy to have all parts awarded. The second part of the series will be published in Finnish in the spring.
Jemisin puts people at the mercy of the earth in a breathtaking way: ironically named Pacific is at the crossroads of continental plates, where earthquakes, eruptions and destructive movements of various magnitudes are constantly taking place. There will always be a time of year that will completely destroy society.
The book begins with a distancing preface in which the tone is seemingly light and comical, even though the speech is from the end of the world: but that is what it is coming for now.
The world is viewed through three women of different ages. All three are orogenes, a kind of innate wizards who are able to listen to the land and influence its operations.
The Orogens are feared and despised, but they are also essential to the functioning of the kingdom – and those in power have subjugated these magical beings like truckers. Orogens are even forced to have sex, to mate, only to give birth to new, humble sorcerers.
When Essun, 42, comes home as he finds his nearly three-year-old son beaten to death on the living room floor. The father has killed the son and taken the daughter. In addition, a groove has ruptured in the ground, pouring ashes from its guts so that it obscures the sky. Years of winter is coming, like George RR Martinin I come and stay in the song as a consensus.
Elsewhere, little Damaya wakes up from the barn straw when her mother sells her to a child buyer. The child buyer turns out to be the Guardian, a refuge that treats Damanya more understandingly than her parents – but who also intentionally breaks this hand, just to show that she can do so.
A third perspective is brought by Syenite in his twenties, who receives an order for an unpleasant job. He has to travel – and of course mate – with a higher-ranking orogen from the safe capital Yumenes to a distant coastal city to remove coral from the harbor.
Essunia narrates you, Damaya and Syenite get to pass in the third person. Regardless of the personal pronoun, the characters in Jemesin are heartbreakingly whole in their humanity; in his anger, fear, and love, in his need to survive, and in his need to maintain his self-esteem.
A lot it is about the relationship between the child and the parent, but also between the person exercising power and the subject. In the realm, it all depends on what color the skin is and what kind of hair it is. These external things tell you where the world comes from, what it’s worth. Jemisin skillfully describes how built-in racist thought patterns are, how almost unnoticed, on the basis of a quick glance, a person’s value is defined.
Alongside the human figures, rock-eaters, mystical ancient figures, rise from the first pages that may create the illusion of the human form. Along with them arises an understanding of the eternity of the earth and the smallness of man, but on the other hand of the fervent, fully charged significance of human life.
Fifth season doesn’t end up in a cliffhanger, but leaves in many ways to wait for the next part. Will the role of rock eaters and giant obelisks survive? Can Essu find his daughter? Why did a good father murder his child? How does the world end?
NK Jemisin is currently one of the most deserving sci-fi and fantasy writers. The world he creates is unique, the use of language and storytelling structures bring depth to the story through imaginative means. Mika Kivimäki reaches different shades of language fluently in Finnish.
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