The Spear Cuts Through Water is a 2022 fantasy novel by Filipino-American writer Simon Jimenez. The novel contains a frame story about a grandchild listening to stories of the Old Country; it also tells the story of two men who journey across the Old Country with a dying goddess.
The journey ahead will be more dangerous than any of them could have imagined. Both a sweeping adventure story and an intimate exploration of identity, legacy, and belonging, The Spear Cuts Through Water is an ambitious and profound saga that will transport and transform you—and is like nothing you’ve ever read before.
“The Spear Cuts Through Water is many, many things. It’s a spellbinding tribute to oral storytelling and folklore. It’s a thoughtful exploration of identity and family. But more than anything, The Spear Cuts Through Water is a love story, and one unlike anything you’ve read before.”—Polygon “Best Science Fiction and Fantasy Books of 2022” “ [The Spear Cuts Through Water] is a ...
To start, I’ll just say “wow.” In The Spear Cuts Through Water by Simon Jimenez, there is a fearsome empire, ruled by a cruel man and terrorized by his three sons, who are known as the Terrors. But one day, the impossible happens: the empress breaks free from the palace. She ends up recruiting two men to help her: Jun, a former guard on the run, and Keema, an outcast struggling to ...
Book Review | The Spear Cuts Through Water – Righter of Words
The Spear Cuts Through Water, by Filipino American author Simon Jimenez, is a 2022 high-fantasy novel inspired by Asian mythology. The two protagonists of the novel, Keema and Jun, are young men tormented by their pasts, tasked with shepherding a goddess who has escaped her prison across a dangerous landscape to join a rebellion. They face a series of challenges, each more deadly than the last ...