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Empress : a novel

Reaching back in time to the seventh century, Shan re-creates a China ruled by the powerful Tang dynasty. Chosen to become one of the emperor's royal concubines, a young girl known as Heavenlight is thrust into the exotic world of the Forbidden City, where she must learn to navigate politics, court intrigue, and pretty jealousies. One among 10,000 girls and women, she eventually distinguishes herself from the others by relying on her intelligence, wit, and fierce determination. Chosen by the heir to the throne to be his first wife, she ascends to the throne after her husband's death, becoming the first empress of China.

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  • "Yŏhwang"
  • "女皇"
  • "Impératrice"
  • "Impératrice"@pl
  • "Impératrice"@it
  • "Imperatrice"@ja

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  • "Reaching back in time to the seventh century, Shan re-creates a China ruled by the powerful Tang dynasty. Chosen to become one of the emperor's royal concubines, a young girl known as Heavenlight is thrust into the exotic world of the Forbidden City, where she must learn to navigate politics, court intrigue, and pretty jealousies. One among 10,000 girls and women, she eventually distinguishes herself from the others by relying on her intelligence, wit, and fierce determination. Chosen by the heir to the throne to be his first wife, she ascends to the throne after her husband's death, becoming the first empress of China."@en
  • "Empress Wu, China's only female emperor, rises from a humble clan and position of concubine to brave the intrigues, betrayal, and violence of the court to become the first Empress of China during the great Tang dynasty in seventh-century China."@en
  • "Empress Wu, China's only female emperor, rises from a humble clan and position of concubine to brave the intrigues, betrayal, and violence of the court to become the first Empress of China during the great Tang dynasty in seventh-century China."
  • "In seventh-century China a young girl from the humble Wu clan entered the imperial gynaecium, housing ten thousand concubines. Inside the Forbidden City, she witnessed seductions, plots, murders, and brazen acts of treason - but shrewdly masterminded her way to the ultimate position of power. From there she instigated positive reforms in government and culture. And yet, from the moment of her death to the present day, her name has been sullied, her story distorted, and her memoirs obliterated by men taking vengeance on a women who dared become Emperor. This amazing historical novelisation reveals a fascinating, complex figure who in many ways remains modern to this day."@en
  • "Historical novel of the life of Empress Wu Zhou, the first and only female emperor in Chinese history."
  • "Une impératrice Tang du VIIe siècle raconte sa vie au bord du fleuve Long : son entrée au gynécée impérial, les meurtres, les complots et les trahisons, la guerre, la famine et les épidémies, son règne pendant lequel elle a porté la civilisation chinoise à son apogée. Mais à sa mort, les hommes se vengeront d'une femme qui avait osé devenir empereur..."
  • "Such is the voice of Shan Sa's unforgettable heroine in her latest literary masterpiece, <Empress</. Empress Wu, one of China's most controversial figures, was its first and only female emperor, who emerged in the seventh century during the great Tang Dynasty and ushered in a golden age. Throughout history, her name has been defamed and her story distorted by those taking vengeance on a woman who dared to become emperor. But now, for the first time in thirteen centuries, Empress Wu (or Heavenlight, as we come to know her) flings open the gates of the Forbidden City and tells her own astonishing tale'revealing a fascinating, complex figure who in many ways remains modern to this day.</ Writing with epic assurance, poetry, and vivid historic detail, Shan Sa plumbs the psychological and philosophical depths of what it means to be a striving mortal in a tumultuous, power-hungry world. <Empress</ is a great literary feat and a revelation for the ages.</"@en

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  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Fiction"
  • "Historical fiction"@en
  • "Historical fiction"
  • "Biographical fiction"
  • "Translations"
  • "Popular literature"
  • "Belletristische Darstellung"
  • "Powieść francuska"@pl
  • "History"
  • "History"@en
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  • "Jotei waga na wa sokuten bukō"@ja
  • "Empress : a novel"
  • "Empress : a novel"@en
  • "Nu hoang = Imperatrice"
  • "Keizerin"
  • "Ch'ŭkch'ŏn Muhu : yŏhwang = Impératrice"
  • "Kaiserin : Roman"
  • "Jotei : wagana wa Sokutenbukou = Impératrice"
  • "Empress"@en
  • "Empress"
  • "女帝わが名は則天武后"
  • "Impératrice : roman"
  • "Impératrice roman"
  • "Carica"
  • "Imperatriz"
  • "Empress a novel"@en
  • "Impératrice"
  • "측천무후 : 女皇 = Impératrice"
  • "Ch'ŭkch'ŏn Muhu. 1 : yŏhwang = Impératrice"
  • "Cesarzowa"@pl
  • "Cesarzowa"
  • "女帝 : わが名ば則天武后 = Impératrice"
  • "Ch'ŭkch'ŏn Muhu. 2 : yŏhwang = Impératrice"
  • "Empress : [a novel]"
  • "Ch'ŭkch'ŏn Muhu : Yŏhwang = Impératrice"
  • "Imperatrice"
  • "Imperatrice"@it

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