When her brother and father die, she sees her brother’s fate as hers for the taking. On the flip side, her brother is assigned the fate of Greatness. Parker-Chan makes it clear that this girl is oppressed by the weight of expectations of her gender in society a cruel fortuneteller says her fate is Nothingness. She is a slight, homely girl who lives with her father and brother. It is in one of these famine-stricken villages that we meet our protagonist. Citizens of the Yuan Dynasty suffered from famine and roaming gangs of bandits the further they were from the Emperor’s army. Shelley Parker-Chan’s debut novel, “She Who Became the Sun,” is a gripping and dazzling read set in 14th century China when there was Mongol rule.
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