![]() ![]() ![]() 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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