Listen and read

Step into an infinite world of stories

  • Listen and read as much as you want
  • Over 400 000+ titles
  • Bestsellers in 10+ Indian languages
  • Exclusive titles + Storytel Originals
  • Easy to cancel anytime
Subscribe now
Details page - Device banner - 894x1036

The Empress of Salt and Fortune

332 Ratings

3.9

Series

1 of 5

Duration
2H 25min
Language
English
Format
Category

Fiction

With the heart of an Atwood tale and the visuals of a classic Asian period drama, Nghi Vo's The Empress of Salt and Fortune is 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 empress In-yo, who has few resources and fewer friends. 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.

© 2020 Tantor Media (Audiobook): 9781705246863

Release date

Audiobook: 31 July 2020

Others also enjoyed ...

  1. Godkiller Hannah Kaner
  2. When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain Nghi Vo
  3. A Wizard's Guide to Defensive Baking T. Kingfisher
  4. A Memory Called Empire: Shortlisted for the 2020 Arthur C. Clarke Award Arkady Martine
  5. The Wolf and the Woodsman: A Novel Ava Reid
  6. Legends & Lattes: A heart-warming cosy fantasy and TikTok sensation Travis Baldree
  7. Black Sun Rebecca Roanhorse
  8. Paladin's Hope T. Kingfisher
  9. Assassin’s Apprentice Robin Hobb
  10. She Who Became the Sun Shelley Parker-Chan
  11. The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet: Wayfarers 1 Becky Chambers
  12. A Marvellous Light: A dazzling, queer romantic fantasy Freya Marske
  13. Silver in the Wood & Drowned Country Emily Tesh
  14. Daughter of the Moon Goddess Sue Lynn Tan
  15. Sistersong: A dazzling folklore retelling full of magic, love and betrayal Lucy Holland
  16. The Book That Wouldn’t Burn Mark Lawrence
  17. The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi Shannon Chakraborty
  18. The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires Grady Hendrix
  19. The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue Mackenzi Lee
  20. An Unkindness of Ghosts Rivers Solomon
  21. Babel: Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators’ Revolution R.F. Kuang
  22. The Binding: A Novel Bridget Collins
  23. Plain Bad Heroines: A Novel Emily M. Danforth
  24. Nothing to See Here Kevin Wilson
  25. Her Body and Other Parties Carmen Maria Machado
  26. Our Wives Under The Sea: Winner of the Polari Prize Julia Armfield
  27. Before the Coffee Gets Cold: The cosy million-copy sensation from Japan Toshikazu Kawaguchi
  28. Get a Life, Chloe Brown: A Novel Talia Hibbert
  29. Spinning Silver: A rich and enchanting fairytale retelling Naomi Novik
  30. Uprooted: An extraordinary spellbinding fantasy inspired by Slavic folklore Naomi Novik
  31. Children of Blood and Bone: A West African-inspired YA Fantasy, Filled with Dark Magic Tomi Adeyemi
  32. A Song of Wraiths and Ruin Roseanne A. Brown
  33. Gideon the Ninth Tamsyn Muir
  34. Under the Whispering Door TJ Klune
  35. Wilder Girls Rory Power
  36. The House in the Cerulean Sea: An Uplifting, Heartwarming Cosy Fantasy About Found Family TJ Klune
  37. The Song of Achilles: A Novel Madeline Miller
  38. The Perks of Being a Wallflower Stephen Chbosky
  39. The Mercies Kiran Millwood Hargrave
  40. In the Lives of Puppets: A No. 1 Sunday Times bestseller and ultimate cosy fantasy TJ Klune