MY LIFE AS EMPEROR
Publisher: Hyperion
Published: February 16, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 290
ISBN-13: 9781401366667
Subjects: Su, Tong,; Chinese (Language) Contemporary Fiction; Fiction - Historical; Fiction; Translations into English; Historical - General; Fiction / General; Fiction / Literary; Literary; 1963-
First sentence: THE SUN, LIKE A BROKEN EGG YOLK, hung suspended behind the summit of Brass Rule Mountain on the frost-laden morning the Imperial Father passed away.
Description: Journeys back in time to imperial China, to the court of a child emperor as it follows the life of a naive fourteen-year-old prince who finds himself unexpectedly named as emperor of an entire nation and is shaped by the power, cruelty, decadence, and intrigues of the royal court. By the author of Raise the Red Lantern.