Orsinia by Ursula K Le Guin

Orsinia by Ursula K Le Guin

'A tour de force' EVENING STANDARD

'She is unique. She is legend' THE TIMES

Among the less-traveled mountains and plains of Central Europe, a little east of Austria perhaps and north of Slovenia, lies the old kingdom of Orsinia. A land of forests and quiet farmlands and towns, with its capital city Krasnoy on the broad Molsen River, Orsinia has always found itself, like all the countries of Europe, subject to forces beyond its borders. Yet, cast as they are in the shadow of tyrannies both Western and Eastern, the lives and dreams of its free people are no less important than the great arguments of Europe's emperors and dictators.

Here then are those lives: in tales of romance and blood-lust, hope and fear, freedom and tyranny, passion and despair. Tales of love, of life and of death and - amidst the great 19th-century rise of liberalism and nationalism - a tale of revolution against the might of the Hapsburg Empire.

This is Orsinia and these are her stories.

Her worlds have a magic sheen. . She moulds them into dimensions we can only just sense. She is unique. She is legend * THE TIMES *
Le Guin is a writer of enormous intelligence and wit, a master storyteller with the humor and the force of a Twain * BOSTON GLOBE *
Eleven hauntingly written short stories . . . The view is lively, haunting, infinite * PUBLISHERS WEEKLY *
ORSINIAN TALES . . . represents the delicate, well-polished woodcarving of a woman who has created whole forests with words . . . lovely and sophisticated * PHILADELPHIA ENQUIRER *

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.

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ISBN 13	9781473212060
ISBN 10	1473212065
Title	Orsinia
Author	Ursula K Le Guin
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Orion Publishing Co
Year published	2017-06-08
Number of pages	560
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