![]() Le Guin published twenty-two novels, eleven volumes of short stories, four collections of essays, twelve books for children, six volumes of poetry and four of translation, and has received many awards: Hugo, Nebula, National Book Award, PEN-Malamud, etc. Lavinia is a book of passion and war, generous and austerely beautiful, from a writer working at the height of her powers. And so she tells us what Virgil did not: the story of her life, and of the love of her life. When a fleet of Trojan ships sails up the Tiber, Lavinia decides to take her destiny into her own hands. ![]() 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. Her mother wants her to marry handsome, ambitious Turnus. ![]() Lavinia grows up knowing nothing but peace and freedom, until suitors come. 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. The Aeneid, Virgil's hero fights to claim the king’s daughter, Lavinia, with whom he is destined to found an empire. ![]() In a richly imagined, beautiful new novel, an acclaimed writer gives an epic heroine her voice. ![]()
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