She chose love. The price she paid was war.
A stunning 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
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
A superbly researched, beautifully written, profound and moving novel
Compulsively readable...a winning combination of history and mythology featuring an unlikely heroine imaginatively plucked from literary obscurity
Elegant and eloquent
Beautiful and moving...Highly recommended
An intriguing, luxuriously realised novel
a superbly researched, beautifully written, profound and moving novel
Ursula K. Le Guin (1929-2018) was a celebrated author whose body of work includes 23 novels, 12 volumes of short stories, 11 volumes of poetry, 13 children's books, five essay collections, and four works of translation. The breadth and imagination of her work earned her six Nebula Awards, seven Hugo Awards, and SFWA's Grand Master, along with the PEN/Malamud and many other awards. In 2014 she was awarded the National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, and in 2016 joined the short list of authors to be published in their lifetimes by the Library of America.
Ursula K. Le Guin was een Amerikaanse schrijfster die voornamelijk bekend stond om haar sciencefiction en fantasy boeken. Haar werk was baanbrekend en had een grote invloed op de literatuur en populaire cultuur.
