Lavinia
- Author Ursula K. Le Guin
- Narrator Imogen Church
- Publisher Orion
- Run Time 11 hours and 50 minutes
- Format Audio
- Genre Ancient Greek religion and mythology, Fantasy, Fantasy romance, Fiction: general and literary, Historical fiction, Historical romance, Roman religion and mythology.
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What to expect
'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...
Critics Review
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Subtly moving, playful…a novel that brought me to tears more than once. Lavinia is a delightful heroine
GUARDIAN -
The focus on the women’s side of the house…serves to give them rightful prominence within the fabric of a society where men are second in command only to fate…Le Guin [makes] mythology tangible, exciting and a surprising joy to read
SCOTLAND ON SUNDAY -
A superbly researched, beautifully written, profound and moving novel
CATHOLIC HERALD -
Compulsively readable…a winning combination of history and mythology featuring an unlikely heroine imaginatively plucked from literary obscurity
BOOKLIST -
Elegant and eloquent
ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY -
Beautiful and moving…Highly recommended
LIBRARY JOURNAL
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