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Lavinia

Ursula K. Le Guin · 2008

288 pages

Lavinia grows up in Latium, a king's daughter who has no voice in her own story. A prophecy names a stranger from Troy as her husband, and when Aeneas arrives their union sets off a war. Years later she tells her own version of the life the epic left unspoken.

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Mythology Retelling, Prophecy, War Fiction, Ancient World

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