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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

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-

She Who Became the Sun

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      Publisher Tor Books
      Published 28 June 2022
      ISBN-13 9781250621818
      978-1250621818
      ISBN-10 125062181X
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      Dystopian & Alternative History Fiction Fantasy

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      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

      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-

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