The Beginning Place

Ursula K. Le Guin

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Tor U.K.
11 September 2018

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945); Fantasy; Epic Fantasy; Parallel Worlds

From multi-award-winning, literary legend Ursula K. Le Guin comes a speculative fiction classic, The Beginning Place.

Fleeing from the monotony of his life, Hugh Rogers finds his way to the beginning place - a gateway to Tembreabrezi, an idyllic, unchanging world of eternal twilight.

Irena Pannis was thirteen when she first found the beginning place. Now, seven years later, she has grown to know and love the gentle inhabitants of Tembreabrezi, or Mountaintown, and she sees Hugh as a trespasser.

But then a monstrous shadow threatens to destroy Mountaintown, and Hugh and Irena join forces to seek it out. Along the way, they begin to fall in love. Are they on their way to a new beginning... or a fateful end?

By: Ursula K. Le Guin
Imprint: Tor U.K.
Dimensions: Height: 211mm, Width: 137mm, Spine: 18mm
Weight: 200g
ISBN: 9781250191069
ISBN 10: 1250191068
Pages: 240
Publication Date: 11 September 2018
Recommended Age: From 0 years
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

URSULA K. LE GUIN is the acclaimed author of more than three dozen books. She has been shortlisted for the Pulitzer Prize, received the National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, invited into the American Academy of Arts and Letters and won numerous awards for her fiction for children and adults. She lives in Portland, Oregon.

Reviews for The Beginning Place

Magical...lyrical...an uncommonly graceful fantasy-romance. --Time Magazine Praise for Ursula K. Le Guin: Like all great writers of fiction, Ursula K. Le Guin creates imaginary worlds that restore us, hearts eased, to our own. --The Boston Globe Queen of the realm of fantasy. --Washington Post Genre cannot contain Ursula Le Guin: she is a genre in herself. --Zadie Smith Ursula Le Guin can lift fiction to the level of poetry and compress it to the density of allegory. --Jonathan Lethem