The release date for the English version of 'She Who Became the Sun' by
Shelley Parker-Chan is Jul 2021. If you enjoy this novel, it is available for buy as a paperback from Barnes & Noble or Indigo, as an ebook on the Amazon Kindle store, or as an audiobook on Audible.
Two youngsters in a dusty yellow plain town facing starvation are granted two different futures. Magnificence, a guy. A girl, emptiness...
China is ruled by the Mongols in 1345. The Central Plains' hungry peasants believe that grandeur exists only in fairy tales. Everyone is puzzled as to how Zhu Chongba, the eighth child of the Zhu family, would fulfil the grandeur that is predicted for him. On the other hand, the family's intelligent and talented second daughter's destiny of nothingness is just to be anticipated.
Zhu Chongba, however, is the one who dies of sadness after a bandit onslaught orphans the two kids. The girl, desperate to avoid her own predetermined demise, assumes her brother's name and enters a monastery disguised as a young novice man. Driven by her intense want to live, Zhu discovers there that she can go to any lengths, no matter how ruthless, to avoid her destiny.
Zhu takes advantage of the opportunity to seize another future entirely—her brother's abandoned greatness—after her refuge is destroyed because she supported the uprising against Mongol control.
Mulan encounters The Song of Achilles, a masterful, beautiful tale of fate and conflict that unfolds over an epic parallel China.