Lavinia: A compulsive, heart-breaking historical romance

ISBN-13: 9780753827840 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 320 str.

Ursula LeGuin

Opis

Lavinia is the daughter of the King of Latium, a victorious warrior who loves peace. Now of an age to wed, Lavinia's mother wants her to marry young King Turnus of Rutulia. Instead, Lavinia dreams of mighty Aeneas, a ghost of a poet, who comes to her in the gods' holy place and tells her of her future, and Aeneas's past.

Recenzje

Subtly moving, playful...a novel that brought me to tears more than once. Lavinia is a delightful heroine GUARDIAN

O autorze

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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