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.

Empress

Literature & Fiction

Shan, Sa

Literary

HarpPeren

In a remote Manchurian town in the 1930s, a sixteen-year-old girl is more concerned with intimations of her own womanhood than the escalating hostilities between her countrymen and their Japanese occupiers. While still a schoolgirl in braids, she takes her first lover, a dissident student. The more she understands of adult life, however, the more disdainful she is of its deceptions, and the more she loses herself in her one true passion: the ancient game of go. Incredibly for a teenager–and a girl at that–she dominates the games in her town. No opponent interests her until she is challenged by a stranger, who reveals himself to us as a Japanese soldier in disguise. They begin a game and continue it for days, rarely speaking but deeply moved by each other’s strategies. As the clash of their peoples becomes ever more desperate and inescapable, and as each one’s untold life begins to veer wildly off course, the girl and the soldier are absorbed by only one thing–the progress of their game, each move of which brings them closer to their shocking fate. In The Girl Who Played Go, Shan Sa has distilled the piercing emotions of adolescence into an engrossing, austerely beautiful story of love, cruelty and loss of innocence.

The Girl Who Played Go

Alfred.A. Knopf

[This book is written in French.] PÃ©kin, minuit, ciel pur et croissant de lune. L'armÃ©e avait ouvert une brÃ¨che sur le dispositif qui encerclait la place de la Paix cÃ©leste. Des milliers d'Ã©tudiants, escortÃ©s par des soldats, affluaient lentement vers la rue de la Longue Paix. Ils se soutenaient les uns les autres; des soupirs et des gÃ©missements s'Ã©levaient pour aussitÃ´t cÃ©der la place au silence. Mais la nuit Ã©tait agitÃ©e. Peking, midnight, clear sky and crescent moon. The army had opened a break in the wall encircling the square of Heavenly Peace. Thousands of students, escorted by soldiers, slowly moved towards the street of the Long Peace. They supported each other; sighs and groaning quickly gave way to silence. But the night was agitated.

Porte de La Paix Celeste (French Edition)

Contemporary

iUniverse

Porte de la Paix céleste

Gallimard Education

A novel set in the time of the end of the renaissance in China.  It is a love story to do with the courtisanes of the cultural revolution?  And it lyrical novel as well as being an eternal story - a fable?Please excuse my limited understanding and translation!

Quatre Vies Du Saule (Folio) (French Edition)

La joueuse de go

Фоліо

Kaiserin

Romance

Historical

Piper Verlag GmbH

Igrayuschaya v go

Tekst

La puerta de la paz celeste (Spanish Edition)

History & Criticism

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