Binding: Hardcover
Description: Two - time British Fantasy Award Winner Astounding Award Winner Lambda Literary Award Finalist Hugo Award Finalist Locus Award Finalist Otherwise 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 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.
Title: She Who Became The Sun
Author(s): Parker - Chan Shelley
Publisher: Tor Publishing Group
Barcode: 9781250621801
Pages: 416 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 7/20/2021
Series: The Radiant Emperor Duology
Category: Fantasy