# Kalpa Imperial

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- Authors: [Angélica Gorodischer](https://www.bookquiver.com/angelica-gorodischer)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 2026-07-16
- Genres: Fiction: literary and general non-genre, Science fiction, Fantasy

## Description

In city squares and golden palaces, a series of storytellers recount the history of the greatest Empire that never was: a history in which orphans rise from the underworld to the throne, mad emperors raze cities, captive dancers induce fatal delirium and murderous empresses plot against their own children. Angélica Gorodischer’s novel, masterfully translated by Ursula K. Le Guin, conjures a vivid fictional universe of labyrinthine cities, desert caravans and the lawless South – and of an Empire fated to rise, fall and rise again.

## Editions

### Kalpa Imperial

- Publisher: Penguin Classics
- Translated by: Ursula K. Le Guin
- ISBN: 978-05-9399-538-9
- Pages: 256
- Published: 2027-08-03
- Language: en_US

### Kalpa Imperial

- Publisher: Penguin
- Translated by: Ursula K. Le Guin
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-18-3731-233-7
- Published: 2026-07-16
- Language: en_GB

### Kalpa Imperial

- Publisher: Penguin Classics
- ISBN: 978-02-4180-352-3
- Pages: 272
- Published: 2026-07-16
- Language: en_GB

## This book in other languages

- [Kalpa imperial](https://www.bookquiver.com/angelica-gorodischer/es/kalpa-imperial) (es_AR)