Nominee · Otherwise Award 2010
The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms
2010 novel by N. K. Jemisin
Yeine Darr is an outcast from the barbarian north. But when her mother dies under mysterious circumstances, she is summoned to the majestic city of Sky. There, to her shock, Yeine is named an heiress to the king. But the throne of the Hundred Thousand Kingdoms is not easily won, and Yeine is thrust into a vicious power struggle with cousins she never knew she had. As she fights for her life, she draws ever closer to the secrets of her mother's death and her family's bloody history.With the fate of the world hanging in the balance, Yeine will learn how perilous it can be when love and hate - and gods and mortals - are bound inseparably together.
Synopsis from Open Library.
- Language
- English
- Genre
- fantasy
- Pages
- 397
- ISBN
- 9782360510238
- Subjects
- Gods, Fantasy, Fiction, characters of color, Fiction, fantasy, epic, Gods and goddesses, Secrets, collection:otherwise_tiptree_award=honor
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