Lavinia
Author: Ursula K. Le Guin
In a richly imagined, beautiful new novel, an acclaimed writer gives an epic heroine her voice.The Aeneid, Virgil’s hero fights to claim the king’s daughter, Lavinia, with whom he is destined to found an empire. Lavinia herself never speaks a word. Now, Ursula K. Le Guin gives Lavinia a voice in a novel that takes us to the half-wild world of ancient Italy, when Rome was a….Read More
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