The Empress of Salt and Fortune [Paperback]

Winner of the 2020 Crawford Award!
Winner of the 2021 Hugo Award!
A Hugo Award-Winning Series!

A 2021 Locus Award Finalist
A 2021 Ignyte Award Finalist
A Goodreads Choice Award Finalist
ABook RiotBest Debut Fantasy of All Time

Dangerous, subtle, unexpected and familiar, angry and ferocious and hopeful...The Empress of Salt and Fortuneis a remarkable accomplishment of storytelling. NPR

Nghi Vo is one of the most original writers we have today. Taylor Jenkins Reid onSiren Queen

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With the heart of an Atwood tale and the visuals of a classic Asian period drama, Nghi Vo'sThe Empress of Salt and Fortuneis a tightly and lushly written narrative about empire, storytelling, and the anger of women.

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 emprelƒc