- Editorial:
- TOR
- Materia:
- Literatura juvenil en inglés
- ISBN:
- 978-1-250-83713-4
- Páginas:
- 416
- Encuadernación:
- Tapa blanda
SHE WHO BECAME THE SUN
SHELLEY PARKER-CHAN
To possess the Mandate of Heaven, the female monk Zhu will do anything
I refuse to be nothing
In a famine-stricken village on a dusty yellow plain, two children are given two fates. A boy, greatness. A girl, nothingness
In 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.
