In an imagined future of the earths last days, a young Tibetan Sherpa hunts for his missing father in the ruined nuclear winterland of the Himalayas, racing against a final calamity that threatens to destroy all humanity.

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A thoughtful read perfect for this moody season. Wall Street Journal

Karma of the Sunis a not-to-miss debut from a ridiculously talented newcomer. Locus Magazine

Beautiful, moving, vast in its spiritual and emotional scope . . . Angela Mi Young Hur, author ofFolklorn,NYTBest Sci-Fi and Fantasy Novel of 2021

Six suns, six blasts in the sky; a seventh one, and the earth will die.

In the isolation of the Himalayas, the snows still fall, but they are tinged with the ash of a nuclear winter; the winds still blow, but they wail with the cries of ghosts. The seventh and final blast is near. As the world heaves its final breaths, the people of the Tibetan plateaucivilizations final survivorsare haunted by spirits and terrorized by warlords. Though the last of the seven prophesied cataclysms is at hand, young Karma searches for a father who disappeared ten years earlier, presumed dead.

Driven by a yearning to see his father again before the end, and called by an eerie horn unheard by anyone else, Karma forges into the Himalayas and discovers that his fathers disappearance may be linked to a mystical mountain said to connect the physical world with the spirit landsand a possible way to save their doomed future.

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