Agent: Laura Rennert, Andrea Brown Literary. She Who Became the Sun by Shelley Parker-Chan Author: SharadePublished Date: July 19, 2021Comments: Leave a Commenton She Who Became the Sun by Shelley Parker-Chan In a famine-stricken village on a dusty yellow plain, two children are given two fates. Fans of Asian-influenced fantasy have just been given their newest obsession.

Though Parker-Chan’s unrelentingly grim view of humanity bogs down the middle of the novel, her nuanced exploration of gender identity and striking meditation on bodily autonomy set this fantasy apart. For his part, Ouyang is not about to let a no-name monk distract him from a revenge plot a lifetime in the making, leading to a Machiavellian series of bargains and battles between the two. The new Zhu’s tenacious will to survive and desire for glory leads her to become first a Buddhist monk, then a commander in the rebel army attempting to overthrow Mongol rule of China-and results in continual clashes with an antagonist to whom her fate is inexorably intertwined: the eunuch General Ouyang.

She is a British Anglican bishop, Lord Spiritual, and former nurse. Instead, his purposefully never-named sister takes on her brother’s identity-and his fate. Dame Sarah Elisabeth Mullally, DBE was born on Maand is the Bishop of London. Their debut historical fantasy novel She Who Became the Sun was a 1 Sunday Times bestseller and has been translated into 12 languages. After bandits kill Zhu Chongba’s father in 14th-century China, Zhu dies of grief without ever having fulfilled the destined greatness that was foreseen at his birth. Shelley Parker-Chan is an Asian-Australian former international development adviser who worked on human rights, gender equality and LGBTQ rights in Southeast Asia. Parker-Chan’s fascinating debut, the first in the Radiant Emperor duology, gives the historical Red Turban Rebellion a grimdark fantasy twist.

She who became the sun