British Fantasy Award Winner
Lambda Literary Award Finalist
Two-time Hugo Award Finalist
Locus 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-born son, Zhu Chongba, is given a fate of greatness, everyone is mystified as to how it will c
