She Who Became the Sun

Title: She Who Became the Sun
Author: Shelley Parker-Chan
ISBN: 9781250621818
Publisher: Tor Trade
Published: 2022
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
Condition: New
New from the publisher

Sci-Fi & Fantasy 1436904

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Lambda Literary Award Finalist! Two-time Hugo Award Finalist!
Locus Award Finalist!

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

Shelley Parker-Chan's 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.