The Beginning Place

Name: The Beginning Place
Brand: Recorded Books
Availability: InStock
Author: Ursula K. Le Guin
ISBN: 9781980008545

Author: Ursula K. Le Guin

Narrator: Rob Inglis

Unabridged: 7 hr 14 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 04/27/2018

Categories: Young Adult Fiction, Fantasy

Synopsis

Tembreabrezi is like Eden-a beginning place. There, Hugh and Irena assume they have merely discovered an escape from the dull monotony, even the terrors of their regular lives. But Tembreabrezi has a secret, a dark fear that is threatening the very life-blood of the kingdom. Hugh and Irena were led there for a purpose, selected for an impossibly hopeless mission. If they accept the challenge, they may lose everything, their new-found paradise, possibly their lives.

About Ursula K. Le Guin

Ursula K. Le Guin (1929-2018) was an American author of novels, children's books, and short stories, mainly in the genres of fantasy and science fiction. She has also written poetry and essays. First published in the 1960s, her work has often depicted futuristic or imaginary alternative worlds in politics, the natural environment, gender, religion, sexuality, and ethnography.

Ursula has influenced such Booker Prize winners and other writers as Salman Rushdie and David Mitchell-and notable science fiction and fantasy writers including Neil Gaiman and Iain Banks. She has won the Hugo Award, Nebula Award, Locus Award, and World Fantasy Award, each more than once. In 2014, she was awarded the National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. She has resided in Portland, Oregon since 1959.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Francisca

Opinions about this novella vary widely. There are those who find it undeserving. But there are others, who, like me, find it rich and different; a parenthesis to reality. Much as the characters living the story, the reader travels through a portal to encounter a new world. Yet, it's hard to know wh......more

Goodreads review by Evangeline

This is my favorite book in the entire world, period, full stop. Lots of other people have summed up the plot so I'm not going to. I just want to say that LeGuin's writing is lyrical and masterful--it moves me to tears every time I read this adult fairy tale. Two people who don't belong in our world......more

Goodreads review by Kara

Damn you, Ursula K. Le Guin, for managing to move me even when I think your book sucks. Many of the poor reviews on Goodreads here can be summed up like so: "Le Guin is a great writer, but this isn't her best." Both of these statements are true. However, I'm not willing to leave it at that. I refuse......more

Goodreads review by Hazal

Kraliçenin standartlarının altında kalan bir romandı. Bir başkası yazmış olsa muhtemelen daha farklı düşünür ve takdir ederdim, ama söz konusu Le Guin olunca beklentimin (ve onun seviyesinin) altında kaldığını hissettim. En bilinen masal arketiplerinden yola çıkarak, erginlenme üzerine günümüz dünyas......more