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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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About the Author
Shelley Parker-Chan is an Asian-Australian former international development adviser who worked on human rights, gender equality and LGBTQ rights in Southeast Asia. Their debut historical fantasy novel She Who Became the Sun was a #1 Sunday Times bestseller and has been translated into 12 languages. Parker-Chan is a winner of the Astounding Award, and the British Fantasy Awards for Best Fantasy Novel and Best Newcomer. They have also been a finalist for the Lambda, Locus, Aurealis, Ditmar, and British Book Awards. They live in Melbourne, Australia.
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On his 12th birthday, a fortune teller tells Zhu Chongba his fate-untold greatness. When his sister sneaks back to hear her fate, she is told it is "nothing." When Chongba and their father die shortly after, his sister decides to tempt the heavens and claim her brother's identity and fate as her own. Concealing her gender, she joins a monastery, and then the Red Turban rebellion, rising from front line soldier to leader. As a novice, and then as a rebel, she repeatedly meets and clashes with the Yuan General Ouyang, a eunuch, who has his own plans and schemes separate from the rebels and the ruling forces. A genderbent, queer, light retelling of the fall of the Yuan Dynasty and the life of the first Ming Emperor (real-life Zhu Chongba, 1328-1398) is full of sweeping storytelling, gripping plot, and epic worldbuilding and doesn't require a prior knowledge of the history covered. Parker-Chan populates her tale with characters constantly caught against expectations and societal structures who each have their own way of fighting to survive and thrive in a world that rejects them and their desires. Teens will have much to relate to and think about, especially in Chongba's shockingly hard-nosed choices, and Ouyang's reflections on the futility of revenge. VERDICT An exciting and thought-provoking epic will have readers breathless and waiting for the next installment.-Jennifer Rothschild, Arlington Cty. P.L., VAα(c) Copyright 2011. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
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