Lavinia: A compulsive, heart-breaking historical romance (Paperback) - Ursula K. Le Guin
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She chose love. The price she paid was war. A stunning combination of history and mythology - 'an intriguing, luxuriously realised novel' FINANCIAL TIMES
She chose love. The price she paid was war.
A stunning combination of history and mythology - 'an intriguing, luxuriously realised novel' FINANCIAL TIMES
READERS on LAVINIA:
'Utterly compelling'
'Clever twist'
'Super'
'Like Spartan Helen, I caused a war. She caused hers by letting men who wanted her take her. I caused mine because I wouldn't be given, wouldn't be taken, but chose my man and my fate'
Lavinia is the daughter of the King of Latium, a victorious warrior who loves peace; she is her father's closest companion. Now of an age to wed, Lavinia's mother favours her own kinsman, handsome, heroic, everything a young girl should want. Instead, Lavinia dreams of mighty Aeneas, a man she has heard of only from a ghost of a poet, who comes to her in the gods' holy place and tells her of her future, and Aeneas' past... If she refuses to wed her mother's choice, Lavinia knows she will start a war...
'Subtly moving, playful...a novel that brought me to tears more than once. Lavinia is a delightful heroine' GUARDIAN
About the Author
Ursula K. Le Guin is one of the finest writers of our time. Her books have attracted millions of devoted readers and won many awards, including the National Book Award, the Hugo and Nebula Awards and a Newbery Honor. Among her novels, The Left Hand of Darkness, The Dispossessed and the six books of Earthsea have attained undisputed classic status; and her recent series, the Annals of the Western Shore, has won her the PEN Center USA Children's literature award and the Nebula Award for best novel. In 2014 Ursula Le Guin was awarded the National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. She lived in Portland, Oregon, until she passed away in January 2018.
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- Contributor:
- Ursula K. Le Guin
- Imprint:
- Weidenfeld & Nicolson
- Publisher:
- Orion Publishing Co
- Release Date:
- 06 Feb 2025
- Number of Pages:
- 320
- Binding:
- Paperback / softback
- ISBN13:
- 9781399624275
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