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Urst, la Le Guin has proven her amazing
versatility many times over--winning awards
for her short stories, fantasy and science fic-
tion novels, children s books, and essays. In
~lalajrena she offers her devoted readers some-
thing new--a magnificent mainstream novel
set in the imaginary country of Orsinia in the
turbulent early nineteenth century.
The land of Orsinia has never existed. But
through the brilliant vision of Ursula Le Guin,
Orsinia and its people come clearly and power-
fully alive. Her most impressive achievement,
though, is the creation of the novel s protago-
nist, ltale Sorde, son and heir to an estate
owner in the beautiful Malafrena valley.
3~,d,qrc,a is his story, an elegant, sweeping
tale of Itale s remarkable education, his
descent into the maelstrom of a nation s tur-
moil, and his final emergence into maturity
and self-awareness.
When the fiery, idealistic ltale is sent away
to school, be quickly falls under the sway of
an underground revolutionary movement sworn
to destroy Austria s domination of Orsinia.
ltale is prepared to die for his country s inde-
pendence and refuses to return home to the
complacent life of a wealthy landowner. He
forsakes Malafrena for Krasnoy, a city in fer-
ment. Here he embarks on a new, exciting
life, learning the lessons of love from a beau-
tiful baroness and lessons in life from a daz-
igentsia and dissidents. But
price for his convictions:
en up the secure life of
Malafrena, the ri~spect of his father, and per-
haps the loveof .his childhood sweetheart, he
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