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'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...

Book details

• Full title: Lavinia
• Author: Ursula K. Le Guin
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 320
• EAN: 9780753827840
• ISBN: 0753827840
• ID: 04152502
• Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
• Weight: 284 g
• Dimensions: 200 × 133 × 21 mm
• Date of publishing: 13. May 2010

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