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She Who Became the Sun - The Radiant Emperor

by Shelley Parker-Chan
$11.90
She Who Became the Sun - The Radiant Emperor
She Who Became the Sun - The Radiant Emperor

Gender-swapped epic reimagines Chinese history.

If you're drawn to stories where destiny is not just accepted but wrestled into submission, "She Who Became the Sun" will resonate with you. Shelley Parker-Chan offers a beautifully crafted narrative that deftly intertwines the grandeur of historical events with the personal struggles of identity and ambition. As you turn its pages, you'll find yourself immersed in a world where one woman's fierce determination to rewrite her fate could inspire your own sense of agency.

  • Hugo Award Nominee for Best Novel (2022)
  • British Book Award Nominee for Fiction: Début (2022)
  • Aurealis Award Nominee for Best Fantasy Novel (2021)
  • Lambda Literary Award Nominee for Transgender Fiction (2021)
  • British Fantasy Award for Best Newcomer (Sydney J. Bounds Award) and for Best Fantasy Novel (Robert Holdstock Award) (2022)
  • Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Fantasy and for Debut Novel (2021)
  • Otherwise Award Nominee (2021)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

She Who Became the Sun - The Radiant Emperor

by Shelley Parker-Chan
$11.90
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ISBN: 9781529043402
Authors: Shelley Parker-Chan
Publisher: Pan Books
Date of Publication: 2022-06-09
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Historical Fiction, Fantasy
Related Topics: Historical Fantasy, War, Retellings
Goodreads rating: 3.84
(rated by 92398 readers)

Description

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 uses the chance to claim another future altogether: her brother's abandoned greatness.Mulan meets The Song of Achilles; an accomplished, poetic debut of war and destiny, sweeping across an epic alternate China.
 

Gender-swapped epic reimagines Chinese history.

If you're drawn to stories where destiny is not just accepted but wrestled into submission, "She Who Became the Sun" will resonate with you. Shelley Parker-Chan offers a beautifully crafted narrative that deftly intertwines the grandeur of historical events with the personal struggles of identity and ambition. As you turn its pages, you'll find yourself immersed in a world where one woman's fierce determination to rewrite her fate could inspire your own sense of agency.

  • Hugo Award Nominee for Best Novel (2022)
  • British Book Award Nominee for Fiction: Début (2022)
  • Aurealis Award Nominee for Best Fantasy Novel (2021)
  • Lambda Literary Award Nominee for Transgender Fiction (2021)
  • British Fantasy Award for Best Newcomer (Sydney J. Bounds Award) and for Best Fantasy Novel (Robert Holdstock Award) (2022)
  • Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Fantasy and for Debut Novel (2021)
  • Otherwise Award Nominee (2021)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.