Lavinia, bride of Aeneas in Virgil's Aeneid, gets a bare handful of mentions in that tale, scarcely enough to make her a living being. LeGuin gives her voice and life in this lyrical, fantastical book, in which Lavinia converses with the dying poet and forms her own shape and the life he could not give her. A beautifully realized ancient world.
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…
Funny, occasionally horrifying, and utterly brilliant. The nine goblins of the title are endearing, hideous, and mostly and incompetent except for Sergeant Nessilka, the brains of the outfit. Unfortunately, she has pretty much the only brains. This has marvelous magical moments, is hysterically funny, and has a lot to say about why we keep on fighting the same battles with the same people.
From New York Times bestselling and Hugo Award-winning author T. Kingfisher comes Nine Goblins, a novella of low fantasy and high mischief.
No one knows exactly how the Goblin War began, but folks will tell you that goblins are stinking, slinking, filthy, sheep-stealing, henhouse-raiding, obnoxious, rude, and violent. Goblins would actually agree with all this, and might throw in “cowardly” and “lazy” too for good measure.
But goblins don't go around killing people for fun, no matter what the propaganda posters say. And when a confrontation with an evil wizard lands a troop of nine goblins deep behind enemy lines,…
The Gates of Midnight has all the magic and sense of a brush with the ineffable that the first two books in the trilogy, The Golem and the Jinni and The Hidden Palace, gave us. Chava, a woman made of clay, and Ahmad, a man made of fire, find their way through an ancient curse that has crossed cultures and generations while they struggle to live as humans. The novel brilliantly combines a detailed immersion into early twentieth century New York with a hidden layer of the fantastic and mythical lying just under the surface.
"An intoxicating fusion of fantasy and historical fiction. . . . Wecker's storytelling skills dazzle."- Entertainment Weekly
The long-awaited final installment in the award-winning, bestselling Golem and the Jinni trilogy.
At the beginning of The Hidden Palace, the second book in Helene Wecker's Golem and Jinni trilogy, Ahmad the jinni travels to Syria with the copper flask that holds the captured wizard Yehudah Schaalman. There in the desert he buries the flask for all time... or so he thinks.
In The Gates of Midnight, the riveting conclusion to the saga of the Golem and…
Elizabeth Sydney’s film career spanned the Golden Age of Hollywood and barely survived the hunt for communists driven by Sen. Joseph McCarthy and the House Un-American Activities Committee that produced a blacklist that shattered careers. Now she wants to be buried in her back yard and the will is invalid if she doesn’t get her way. A combustible assortment of industry friends, family, former lovers, a man no one has hitherto heard of, half a dozen charitable beneficiaries, and an ungovernable horde of media descend on the small California town where she retired and picked out a spot in her oak grove. As they try to break the will, her reasons begin to surface in the story of an old betrayal of friends by friends and by the country’s own government. An examination of the lasting damage of the blacklist that is both timely and increasingly relevant to our current political situation.
