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SHE WHO BECAME THE SUN - SHELLEY PARKER-CHAN KA...

?This audacious  brilliant debut is a vivid  original reimagining . . . Peopled by flawed 
fearless characters and with a dramatically violent storyline  this is immersive storytelling
at its finest' - Daily Mail  ?A thoroughly engrossing read with a fabulous  tragic-trickster
protagonist . . . I've been waiting for a book like this' - Megan Campisi  author of Sin Eater
?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.  
In a famine-stricken village on a dusty plain  a seer shows two children their fates. For a
family's eighth-born son  there's greatness. For the second daughter  nothing.   In 1345  China
lies restless under harsh Mongol rule. And when a bandit raid wipes out their home  the two
children must somehow survive. Zhu Chongba despairs and gives in. But the girl resolves to
overcome her destiny. So she takes her dead brother's identity and begins her journey. Can Zhu
escape what's written in the stars  as rebellion sweeps the land? Or can she claim her
brother's greatness - and rise as high as she can dream?  This is a glorious tale of love  loss
betrayal and triumph by a powerful new voice.  ?As brilliant as Circe . . . a deft and dazzling
triumph' - Tasha Suri  author of The Jasmine Throne  ?Epic  tragic and gorgeous' - Alix E.
Harrow  author of The Ten Thousand Doors of January  She Who Became the Sun by Shelley
Parker-Chan is a historical fantasy reimagining of the rise to power of Zhu Yuanzhang. Zhu was
the peasant rebel who expelled the Mongols  unified China under native rule  and became the
founding Emperor of the Ming Dynasty.

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