Shan Sa

Empress: A Novel Shan Sa Reprint edition

Now available with P. S., Empress is the hugely popular historical novel of one of <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" />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.