She Who Became the Sun - Shelley Parker-Chan

Two-time British Fantasy Award Winner\n Astounding Award Winner Lambda Literary Award Finalist Hugo Award Finalist Locus Award Finalist Otherwise Award Finalist\n "Magnificent in every way."—Samantha Shannon, author of The Priory of the Orange Tree\n "A dazzling new world of fate, war, love and betrayal."—Zen Cho, author of Black Water Sister\n She Who Became the Sun reimagines the rise to power of the Ming Dynasty’s founding emperor.\n To possess the Mandate of Heaven, the female monk Zhu will do anything “I refuse to be nothing…”\n In a famine-stricken village on a dusty yellow plain, two children are given two fates. A boy, greatness. A girl, nothingness…\n In 1345, China lies under harsh Mongol rule. For the starving peasants of the Central Plains, greatness is something found o