# Lavinia

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- Book: [Lavinia](https://www.bookquiver.com/ursula-k-le-guin/lavinia) ([Lavinia.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/ursula-k-le-guin/lavinia.md))
- Authors: [Ursula K. Le Guin](https://www.bookquiver.com/ursula-k-le-guin)
- Publisher: gateway
- Medium: audio
- ISBN: 978-14-7323-068-2
- Published: 2020-06-04
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Audiobook

## Description

An exceptional 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' 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...