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. A girl, nothingness… In 1345, China lies under harsh Mongol rule. 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. She won the Astounding Award for Best New Writer in 2022. British Fantasy Award Winner Parker-Chan currently lives in Melbourne, Australia, where she is very grateful to never have to travel by leaky boat ever again.

After a failed search to find English-language book versions of these stories, she decided to write her own.

Parker-Chan spent nearly a decade working as a diplomat and international development adviser in Southeast Asia, where she became addicted to epic East Asian historical TV dramas. A 2017 Tiptree Fellow, she is the author of the historical fantasy novel She Who Became the Sun. About the Author Shelley Parker-Chan is an Australian by way of Malaysia and New Zealand.

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