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Book SynopsisTwo-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-
