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Again.  \nThree terrible things happen in a single day. Essun, a woman living an ordinary life in a small town, comes home to find that her husband has brutally murdered their son and kidnapped their daughter. Meanwhile, mighty Sanze—the world-spanning empire whose innovations have been civilization's bedrock for a thousand years — collapses as most of its citizens are murdered to serve a madman's vengeance. And worst of all, across the heart of the vast continent known as the Stillness, a great red rift has been been torn into the heart of the earth, spewing ash enough to darken the sky for years. Or centuries.  \nNow Essun must pursue the wreckage of her family through a deadly, dying land. Without sunlight, clean water, or arable land, and with limited stockpiles of supplies, there will be war all across the Stillness: a battle royale of nations not for power or territory, but simply for the basic resources necessary to get through the long dark night. Essun does not care if the world falls apart around her. She'll break it herself, if she must, to save her daughter.  \nN. K. Jemisin  \nThe Fifth Season The Broken Earth-1  \nePub r1.0  \nTitivillus 14.01.17  \nOriginal title: The Fifth Season N. K. Jemisin, 2015  \nMap illustration: Tim Paul  \nCover design: Lauren Panepinto  \nDigital editor: TitivillusePub base r1 .2  \nFor all those who have to fight for the respect that everyone else is given without question  \n1  \nyou, at the end  \nYOU ARE SHE. SHE IS you. You are Essun. Remember? The woman whose son is dead.  \nYou’re an orogene who’s been living in the little nothing town of Tirimo for ten years. Only three people here know what you are, and two of them you gave birth to.  \nWell. One left who knows, now.  \nFor the past ten years you’ve lived as ordinary a life as possible. You came to Tirimo from elsewhere ; the townsfolk don’t really care where or why. Since you were obviously well educated, you became a teacher at the local creche for children aged ten to thirteen. You’re neither the best teacher nor the worst; the children forget you when they move on, but they learn. The butcher probably knows your name because she likes to flirt with you. The baker doesn’t because you’re quiet, and because like everyone else in town he just thinks of you as Jija’s wife. Jija’s a Tirimo man born and bred, a stoneknapper of the Resistant use-caste; everyone knows and likes him, so they like you peripherally. He’s the foreground of the painting that is your life together. You’re the background. You like it that way.  \nYou’re the mother of two children, but now one of them is dead and the other is missing. Maybe she’s dead, too. You discover all of this when you come home from work one day. House empty, too quiet, tiny little boy all bloody and bruised on the den floor.  \nAnd you…shut down. You don’t mean to. It’s just a bit much, isn’t it? Too much. You’ve been through a lot, you’re very strong, but there are limits to what even you can bear.  \nTwo days pass before anyone comes for you.  \nYou’ve spent them in the house with your dead son. You’ve risen, used the toilet, eaten something from the coldvault, drunk the last trickle of water  \nfrom the tap. These things you could do without thinking, by rote. Afterward, you returned to Uche’s side.  \n(You fetched him a blanket during one of these trips. Covered him up to his ruined chin. Habit. The steampipes have stopped rattling; it’s cold in the house. He could catch something.)  \nLate the next day, someone knocks at the house’s front door. You do not stir yourself to answer it. That would require you to wonder who is there and whether you should let them in. Thinking of these things would make you consider your son’s corpse under the blanket, and why would you want to do that? You ignore the door knock.  \nSomeone bangs at the window in the front room. Persistent. You ignore this, too.  \nFinally, someone breaks the glass on the house’s back door. You hears footstep","cbCaiauu3cWYj2MW","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaiauu3cWYj2MW","pdf",2408371,333,"English","# Opening disaster\n## Essun’s family tragedy\n## The collapsing world and the red rift\n# Essun’s numb survival\n## Life in Tirimo and her role\n## The house break-in and Lerna’s arrival","[{\"question\":\"What disaster defines the opening of The Fifth Season?\",\"answer\":\"A day of catastrophic events includes brutal murders, the disappearance of Essun’s daughter, and a massive red rift tearing into the earth that darkens the sky for years.\"},{\"question\":\"Who is Essun, and what is her situation at the start?\",\"answer\":\"Essun is a mother living a restrained, ordinary life in Tirimo until she finds her son dead and her daughter missing, leaving her emotionally shut down while the world deteriorates around her.\"},{\"question\":\"Why does conflict spread across the Stillness?\",\"answer\":\"With no sunlight, clean water, or arable land and limited supplies, war erupts as nations compete for the basic resources needed to endure the long dark night.\"}]","The Fifth Season - Part 1 - World-ending disaster and survival | PDF",513]