{"product_id":"lavinia-ursula-k-le-guin-9780156033688","title":"Lavinia: A Novel | Ursula K. Le Guin","description":"\u003cp style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"A transporting novel told in the voice of a girl Virgil left in the margins. It is an absorbing, reverent, magnificent story.\"\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e—Cleveland Plain Dealer\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNational Book Award-winning literary legend \u003cstrong\u003eUrsula K. Le Guin\u003c\/strong\u003e reimagines Virgil's epic poem \u003cem\u003eThe Aeneid\u003c\/em\u003e through the eyes and voice of Lavinia, Aeneas' last wife.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eThe Aeneid\u003c\/em\u003e, Vergil'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 muddy village near seven hills.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"\u003eLavinia grows up knowing nothing but peace and freedom, until suitors come.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHer mother wants her to marry handsome, ambitious Turnus. But omens and prophecies spoken by the sacred springs say she must marry a foreigner—that she will be the cause of a bitter war—and that her husband will not live long.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhen a fleet of Trojan ships sails up the Tiber, Lavinia decides to take her destiny into her own hands. And so she tells us what Vergil did not: the story of her life, and of the love of her life.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bust-Down Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51512847827259,"sku":"0156033682","price":10.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0855\/2077\/7531\/files\/9780156033688.jpg?v=1787400865","url":"https:\/\/bustdownbooks.com\/products\/lavinia-ursula-k-le-guin-9780156033688","provider":"Bust-Down Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}