West of January is a fantasy novel by Dave Duncan.

The book won the 1990 Prix Aurora Award (Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy) for Best Long-Form Work in English.

[1] 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.

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