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She Who Became the Sun

She Who Became the Sun

Parker-Chan, Shelley

Paperback

Series: Radiant Emperor Duology, Book 1

FantasyGeneral Fiction

Publisher Price: $18.99

ISBN10: 125062181X
ISBN13: 9781250621818
Publisher: Tor Books
Published: Jun 28 2022
Pages: 416
Weight: 0.82
Height: 1.10 Width: 5.60 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Awards: Hugo Award

Two-time British Fantasy Award Winner
Astounding Award Winner
Lambda Literary Award Finalist
Hugo Award Finalist
Locus Award Finalist
A Dragon Award Finalist
Otherwise Award Finalist

I loved it.--The New York Times

Magnificent in every way.--Samantha Shannon, author of The Priory of the Orange Tree

A dazzling new world of fate, war, love and betrayal.--Zen Cho, author of Black Water Sister

She Who Became the Sun reimagines the rise to power of the Ming Dynasty's founding emperor.

To possess the Mandate of Heaven, the female monk Zhu will do anything

I refuse to be nothing...

In a famine-stricken village on a dusty yellow plain, two children are given two fates. A boy, greatness. A girl, nothingness...

In 1345, China lies under harsh Mongol rule. For the starving peasants of the Central Plains, greatness is something found only in stories. When the Zhu family's eighth-born son, Zhu Chongba, is given a fate of greatness, everyone is mystified as to how it will come to pass. The fate of nothingness received by the family's clever and capable second daughter, on the other hand, is only as expected.

When a bandit attack orphans the two children, though, it is Zhu Chongba who succumbs to despair and dies. Desperate to escape her own fated death, the girl uses her brother's identity to enter a monastery as a young male novice. There, propelled by her burning desire to survive, Zhu learns she is capable of doing whatever it takes, no matter how callous, to stay hidden from her fate.

After her sanctuary is destroyed for supporting the rebellion against Mongol rule, Zhu takes the chance to claim another future altogether: her brother's abandoned greatness.

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