The formidable Empress of Salt and Fortune has died and her successor is to be crowned soon.
In Nghi Vo’s beguiling The Empress of Salt and Fortune a review of objects slowly unveils a picture of one woman’s life in service to a monarch filled with loss and also delivers a wider change that impacted an entire country’s future. As historians have known for a long time objects tell us about the times they were created in and also we can find a lot about the owners’ lives down the ages. Part of the fun is someone finding out that the jar in the back of the cupboard is worth a fortune or the cruel looking posh person’s treasure is a fake but one of the other interesting aspects are the stories of how an object got into your family. In the UK we have a tv show called The Antiques Roadshow where experts look at people’s old items/junk. She's a northern daughter in a mage-made summer exile, but she will bend history to her will and bring down her enemies, piece by piece. 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.Īt once feminist high fantasy and an indictment of monarchy, this evocative debut follows the rise of the empress In-yo, who has few resources and fewer friends. Alone and sometimes reviled, she must choose her allies carefully. Her brothers are dead, her armies and their war mammoths long defeated and caged behind their borders. Price - £8.99 paperback £2.06 Kindle eBookĪ young royal from the far north, is sent south for a political marriage in an empire reminiscent of imperial China.
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