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Bezig met laden... The Complete Orsinia: Malafrena / Stories and Songsdoor Ursula K. Le Guin
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BevatThe Barrow [short story] door Ursula K. Le Guin (indirect) A Week in the Country [short story] door Ursula K. Le Guin (indirect) An die Musik [short story] door Ursula K. Le Guin (indirect) Brothers and Sisters [short story] door Ursula K. Le Guin (indirect) Conversations at Night [short story] door Ursula K. Le Guin (indirect) Ile Forest [short story] door Ursula K. Le Guin (indirect) The Fountains [short story] door Ursula K. Le Guin (indirect) Imaginary Countries [short story] door Ursula K. Le Guin (indirect) The House [short story] door Ursula K. Le Guin (indirect) The Lady of Moge [short story] door Ursula K. Le Guin (indirect) The Road East [short story] door Ursula K. Le Guin (indirect) Prijzen
"The inaugural volume of Library of America's Ursula K. Le Guin edition gathers her complete Orsinian writings, enchanting, richly imagined historical fiction collected here for the first time. Written before Le Guin turned to science fiction, the novel Malafrena is a tale of love and duty set in the central European country of Orsinia in the early nineteenth century, when it is ruled by the Austrian empire. The stories originally published in Orsinian Tales (1976) offer brilliantly rendered episodes of personal drama set against a history that spans Orsinia's emergence as an independent kingdom in the twelfth century to its absorption by the Eastern Bloc after World War II. The volume is rounded out by two additional stories that bring the history of Orsinia up to 1989, the poem 'Folksong from the Montayna Province, ' Le Guin's first published work, and two never before published songs in the Orisinian language."--Page 4 of cover. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Google Books — Bezig met laden... GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)813.54Literature English (North America) American fiction 20th Century 1945-1999LC-classificatieWaarderingGemiddelde:
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The following Orsinian Tales, which range across the entire history of the country from tenuous early Christian conversion to the fall of the Iron Curtain in 1989, however are on average greatly superior and I recommend them. Unfortunately to get the most from them, Malafrena is a pre-requisite, slight slog that it is. The stories are set not only at key points in European history but also just wherever they might need to be to tell the story UKL had in mind. The end of Summer in the countryside, 1935, particularly redound through history, for instance, but the story captures a mood exceptionally and delightfully.
The book ends in 1989, the most optimistic year in Europe since the start of WWI. The Iron Curtain fell and a great, meancing Russian shadow over Europe was removed. Shocking and scary to note, in 2018, the extent to which that shadow is regrowing and spreading over America, too. Ukraine, and Georgia strategically nibbled at. America that defined itself as standing against the Soviets, now a client state of a resurgent Imperialist Russia. ( )