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"A transporting novel told in the voice of a girl Virgil left in the margins. It is an absorbing, reverent, magnificent story." --

Despite its mythological roots, the book is praised for its meticulous research into pre-Roman Italian rituals, customs, and landscapes, depicting a "half-wild world" of mud villages and sacred springs. Themes: Agency, Fate, and Voice Go to product viewer dialog for this item. Lavinia Ursula K Le Guin epub

Reviewers have consistently praised the prose as "austerely beautiful", "graceful", and possessing a "melodic" flow that mimics the rhythm of epic poetry. "A transporting novel told in the voice of

Le Guin herself described the book as a "love offering" to Virgil. Lavinia Ursula K Le Guin epub