num_pages: 416
description: Mulan meets The Song of Achilles; an accomplished poetic debut of war and destiny sweeping across an epic alternate China.I refuse to be nothingIn a famine-stricken village on a dusty yellow plain two children are given two fates. A boy greatness. A girl nothingnessIn 1345 China lies under harsh Mongol rule. For the starving peasants of the Central Plains greatness is something found only in stories. When the Zhu familys eighth-born son Zhu Chongba is given a fate of greatness everyone is mystified as to how it will come to pass. The fate of nothingness received by the familys clever and capable second daughter on the other hand is only as expected.When a bandit attack orphans the two children though it is Zhu Chongba who succumbs to despair and dies. Desperate to escape her own fated death the girl uses her brother's identity to enter a monastery as a young male novice. There propelled by her burning desire to survive Zhu learns she is capable of doing whatever it takes no matter how callous to stay hidden from her fate.After her sanctuary is destroyed for supporting the rebellion against Mongol rule Zhu uses takes the chance to claim another future altogether: her brother's abandoned greatness.
language: English
title: She Who Became the Sun
publisher: Tor Books