''West of January'' is a
fantasy novel by
Dave Duncan. The book won the 1990
Prix Aurora Award
The Aurora Awards (french: Prix Aurora-Boréal) are a set of primarily literary awards given annually for the best Canadian science fiction or fantasy professional and fan works and achievements from the previous year."Literary glow of Auroras lur ...
(Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy) for Best Long-Form Work in English.
Plot
The novel is set on a world called Vernier, on which the cycle of day and night lasts two hundred years. It describes the journey of discovery of Knobil, a herdsman born on the grasslands of Vernier.
References
Canadian fantasy novels
1989 Canadian novels
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