Lavinia : A compulsive, heart-breaking historical romance Paperback / softback
by Ursula K. Le Guin
Paperback / softback
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An exceptional combination of history and mythology - 'an intriguing, luxuriously realised novel' FINANCIAL TIMES'Subtly moving, playful...a novel that brought me to tears more than once.
Lavinia is a delightful heroine' GUARDIAN'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. The man was famous, the fate obscure; not a bad balance.'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, King Turnus of Rutulia, 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 Turnus, Lavinia knows she will start a war - but her fate was set the moment the poet appeared to her in a dream and told her of the adventurer who fled fallen Troy, holding his son's hand and carrying his father on his back...
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:320 pages, 1 Maps
- Publisher:Orion Publishing Co
- Publication Date:13/05/2010
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- ISBN:9780753827840
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Only a few left - usually despatched within 24 hours
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:320 pages, 1 Maps
- Publisher:Orion Publishing Co
- Publication Date:13/05/2010
- Category:
- ISBN:9780753827840
