Lavinia Le Guin Ursula K.Paperback
Lavinia Le Guin Ursula K.Paperback "A transporting novel told in the voice of a girl Virgil left in the margins. Le Guin (Cleveland Plain Dealer).In The Aeneid, Vergil's hero fights to claim the…
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Lavinia Le Guin Ursula K.Paperback
"A transporting novel told in the voice of a girl Virgil left in the margins. Le Guin (Cleveland Plain Dealer).In The Aeneid, Vergil's hero fights to claim the king's daughter, Lavinia, with whom he is destined to found an empire. It is an absorbing, reverent, magnificent story" from the iconic, award-winning Ursula K.
Now, Ursula K. Lavinia herself never speaks a word. Le Guin gives Lavinia a voice in a novel that takes us to the half-wild world of ancient Italy, when Rome was a muddy village near seven hills.Lavinia grows up knowing nothing but peace and freedom, until suitors come.
Her mother wants her to marry handsome, ambitious Turnus. But omens and prophecies spoken by the sacred springs say she must marry a foreigner--that she will be the cause of a bitter war--and that her husband will not live long. When a fleet of Trojan ships sails up the