Two-time British Fantasy Award Winner
\nAstounding Award Winner
\nLambda Literary Award Finalist
\nHugo Award Finalist
\nLocus Award Finalist
\nOtherwise Award Finalist<\/p>\n
“Magnificent in every way.”\u2014Samantha Shannon, author of The Priory of the Orange Tree<\/p>\n
“A dazzling new world of fate, war, love and betrayal.”\u2014Zen Cho, author of Black Water Sister<\/p>\n
She Who Became the Sun reimagines the rise to power of the Ming Dynasty\u2019s founding emperor.<\/p>\n
To possess the Mandate of Heaven, the female monk Zhu will do anything<\/p>\n
\u201cI refuse to be nothing\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n
In a famine-stricken village on a dusty yellow plain, two children are given two fates. A boy, greatness. A girl, nothingness\u2026<\/p>\n
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\u2019s 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\u2019s clever and capable second daughter, on the other hand, is only as expected.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
After her sanctuary is destroyed for supporting the rebellion against Mongol rule, Zhu takes the chance to claim another future her brother’s abandoned greatness.<\/p>\n
At the Publisher’s request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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