Powerful and poetic, beautiful and brutal, She Who Became the Sun is a bold reimagining of the rise of the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty.
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.Īfter her sanctuary is destroyed for supporting the rebellion against Mongol rule, Zhu uses takes the chance to claim another future altogether: her brother's abandoned greatness.Ī lush, fresh literary voice merges with commercial appeal in this accomplished debut. Desperate to escape her own fated death, the girl uses her brother's identity to enter a monastery as a young male novice.
The book won both the Best Novel and Best Newcomer awards at the British Fantasy Awards, and was a finalist. Parker-Chan's debut novel, the work is a re-imagining of the rise to power of the Hongwu Emperor in the 14th century. When a bandit attack orphans the two children, though, it is Zhu Chongba who succumbs to despair and dies. She Who Became the Sun is a 2021 historical fantasy novel by Shelley Parker-Chan. The fate of nothingness received by the family’s clever and capable second daughter, on the other hand, is only as expected. 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. For the starving peasants of the Central Plains, greatness is something found only in stories. In 1345, China lies under harsh Mongol rule. In a famine-stricken village on a dusty yellow plain, two children are given two fates. She Who Became the Sun reimagines the rise to power of the Ming Dynasty’s founding emperor. Through innumerable battles, both inside of herself and out, Zhu convinces the world she is her brother, Zhu Chongba, and does everything and anything she can.
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