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The author of The Charioteer and The King Must Die, Renault studied at Oxford but eventually abandoned the academic world and England for South Africa, where she and her companion, Julie Mullard, remained. "A superb biography of an exceptional novelist" (New Yorker). Named a Notable Book of the Year by the New York Times. Index, photographs.

The coming of Christ is a promise waiting for us in the shadows of the horizon. Maybe only a couple of hours remain before daybreak. The darkest part of the night is immediately before the dawn. For the bride of Christ it is time to start the fire, light the lamps and dissipate the shadows.

Following its heroine from concubine to ruler of China, Empress sweeps through the exotic, turbulent century of the Tang dynasty--and the life of an extraordinary woman. An epic in the bestselling traditions of The Tokaido Road and Silk Road.