She Who Became the Sun (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781250621801)

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.

Author: Shelley Parker-Chan
ISBN-10: 1250621801
ISBN-13: 9781250621801
Publisher: Tor Books
Language: English
Published: 07/20/2021
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.05lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.40w x 1.50d
Award: Hugo Award - Finalist

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal Prepub Alert 02/01/2021 pg. 61
Publishers Weekly 03/01/2021
Library Journal 04/01/2021 pg. 46
Booklist 06/01/2021 pg. 55
Shelf Awareness 07/20/2021