Lavinia
Le Guin, Ursula K, 1929-20182010
Book
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. This is a story of family, love, and war, generous and austerely beautiful.
Main title:
Lavinia / Ursula Le Guin.
Author:
Le Guin, Ursula K, 1929-2018, author
Work:
Imprint:
London : Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2010.©2008
Collation:
295, 13 pages : maps ; 20 cm
Notes:
First published: 2009.Includes reading group notes and bibliographical references.
ISBN:
9780753827840 (paperback)
Dewey class:
813.54
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
181331