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by Shan Sa (Author)
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  • Paperback: 336 pages
  • Publisher: HarperCollins; Reprint edition (5 Jun 2008)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0061147877
  • ISBN-13: 978-0061147876
  • Product Dimensions: 19.8 x 13.5 x 2.3 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 53,854 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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"Spellbinding.... Sa's language is graceful and trance-like: her fights are a whirling choreography of flying limbs and snow, her emotions richly yet precisely expressed." -The Times (London)"

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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.
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3.0 out of 5 stars Wonder tear in the fabric of time, 17 Nov 2009
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"Empress" is a wonderful tear in the fabric of time, which gives the reader the opportunity of seeing a long-gone Chinese empire, shaped by myriads of ceremonies and rituals, ambitious and quite murderous family clans, and one amazing person: Empress Wu.

I found the plot more like an overview with unnecessary emphasis on the sensual, but the description of the empire and this time is truly magnificant.

Louise.
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