Kalpa Imperial: The Greatest Empire That Never Was (Paperback)

from Mrs_McGreevy

Angelica Gorodischer is an Argentinean writer who has won numerous awards. This is the first of her nineteen books to be translated into English, and it's a doozy. It's a collection of tales from a long-ago empire that resonate with Gorodischer's own experiences under a brutal government in the 7...

from AltheaAnn

Of course, I read this because it was translated by Ursula K. LeGuin.I can see why she liked it - the book touches on many of the themes that LeGuin deals with in her own work.As usual (actually, without a known exception) LeGuin will not steer you wrong. (I've started buying any book that I see ...

from zeborah

Ursula Le Guin's translation of this may have been very accurate but I don't feel it let much flavour of the original come through. It read just as though the story had always been written in English, and a generic pseudo-medieval fantasy English at that. On the other hand it was hard to get from...

from alexdallymacfarlane

A book comprising snippets of history, as told by storytellers, of a grand empire. The parts are only slightly linked; most stand alone, short and marvellous stories of an intriguing land. Gorodischer knows how to spice her work with the details that bring a city's individual streets to life, or ...

from alexdallymacfarlane

A book comprising snippets of history, as told by storytellers, of a grand empire. The parts are only slightly linked; most stand alone, short and marvellous stories of an intriguing land. Gorodischer knows how to spice her work with the details that bring a city's individual streets to life, or ...