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The Empress of Salt and Fortune

By Nghi Vo
Series: The Singing Hills Cycle
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A young northern royal, sent south for a political marriage within an empire resembling imperial China, navigates a web of intrigue and loss. Her brothers are dead, her armies defeated, and she must carefully select allies to survive. Rabbit, a handmaiden sold to the palace for five baskets of dye, befriends the emperor's isolated new wife, the empress In-yo. In this feminist high fantasy and critique of monarchy, In-yo, though with few resources and friends, bends history to her will and dismantles her enemies piece by piece.
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Format: Paperback / softback
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Ideal for readers of feminist high fantasy, intricate political narratives, and those interested in culturally rich settings inspired by imperial China.

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With the heart of an Atwood tale and the visuals of a classic Asian period drama The Empress of Salt and Fortune is a tightly and lushly written narrative about empire, storytelling, and the anger of women.

With the heart of an Atwood tale and the visuals of a classic Asian period drama The Empress of Salt and Fortune is a tightly and lushly written narrative about empire, storytelling, and the anger of women.

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A young royal from the far north is sent south for a political marriage in an empire reminiscent of imperial China. Her brothers are dead, her armies and their war mammoths long defeated and caged behind their borders. Alone and sometimes reviled, she must choose her allies carefully.

Rabbit, a handmaiden sold by her parents to the palace for the lack of five baskets of dye, befriends the emperor's lonely new wife and gets more than she bargained for.

At once feminist high fantasy and an indictment of monarchy, this evocative debut follows the rise of the empress In-yo, who has few resources and fewer friends. She's a northern daughter in a mage-made summer exile, but she will bend history to her will and bring down her enemies, piece by piece.

The Empress of Salt and Fortune is a compelling tale of power, friendship, and resilience.

Series: The Singing Hills Cycle

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Winner of the 2020 Crawford Award and the 2021 Hugo Award. Acclaimed as a must-read by Book Riot and praised by NPR as "dangerous, subtle, unexpected and familiar, angry and ferocious and hopeful... a remarkable accomplishment of storytelling." Noted for being "fascinating, tightly-written and gorgeous" by Veronica Roth and hailed as work by "one of the most original writers we have today" by Taylor Jenkins Reid.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781250750303

Publisher: St Martin's Press

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 24 March 2020

Country: United States

Imprint: St Martin's Press

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 12.0mm

Width: 130.0mm

Height: 205.0mm

Weight: 107g

Pages: 128

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Fantasy Fiction General Fiction Nghi Vo Sci-Fi & Fantasy Series: The Singing Hills Cycle

About the Author

Nghi Vo was born in central Illinois, and she retains a healthy respect of and love for corn mazes, scarecrows, and fifty-year floods. These days, she lives on the shores of Lake Michigan, which is less a lake than an inland sea that she is sure is just biding its time. Her short fiction has appeared in Strange Horizons, Uncanny Magazine, PodCastle, Lightspeed, and Fireside. Her short story, "Neither Witch nor Fairy" made the 2014 Tiptree Award Honor List. Nghi mostly writes about food, death, and family, but sometimes detours into blood, love, and rhetoric. She believes in the ritual of lipstick, the power of stories, and the right to change your mind.

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