Empress

Description

Now available with P.S., Empress is the hugely popular historical novel of one of China’s most controversial historical figures: its first female emperor, Empress Wu, who emerged in the Tang Dynasty and ushered in a golden age. Writing with epic assurance, poetry, and vivid historic detail, Shan Sa, author of Alexander and Alestria, plumbs the psychological and philosophical depths of what it means to be a striving mortal in a tumultuous, power-hungry world.

Binding Type: Paperback
Author: Shan Sa
Published: 09/15/2009
Publisher: Harper Perennial
ISBN: 9780061829604
Pages: 352
Weight: 0.55lbs
Size: 0.81″ H x 8.00″ L x 5.36″ W

About the Author
Sa, Shan: –

Shan Sa was born in Beijing and had her first poems, essays, and stories published at the age of eight. In 2001 her novel The Girl Who Played Go won the Goncourt Prize. The author of Empress, she is also a celebrated artist who has had prominent exhibitions in Paris and New York.