![]() ![]() Desperate to escape her own fated death, the girl uses her brother's identity to enter a monastery as a young male novice. When a bandit attack orphans the two children, though, it is Zhu Chongba who succumbs to despair and dies. ![]() ![]() 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. 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. Two-time British Fantasy Award Winner Astounding Award Winner Lambda Literary Award Finalist 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. ![]()
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