The Beginning Place

by Ursula K. Le Guin Narrated by Rob Inglis

Overview

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.

Editorial Reviews

From the Publisher

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

Boston-Globe

"Like all great writers of fiction, Ursula K. Le Guin creates imaginary worlds that restore us, hearts eased, to our own."

Time Magazine

"Magical…lyrical…an uncommonly graceful fantasy-romance."

Product Details

BN ID:	2940170531530
Publisher:	Recorded Books, LLC
Publication date:	04/27/2018
Edition description:	Unabridged

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The Beginning Place

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By Le Guin, Ursula K.

Tor Teen

Copyright © 2005

Le Guin, Ursula K.

All right reserved.

ISBN: 0765346257

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Hugh lay with his shoulders against the fallen true, struggling to breathe, to get air into his lungs. The world slipped and whitened around him. When it began to steady, when the pain in his chest lessened, he became aware of the warmth and weight pressed against him, against his left side and arm. "Irena," he said in a voiceless whisper, giving that warmth a name, pulling himself back with the name, the presence. She was crouching doubled up, her face hidden. "It's all right," he said.
"It's gone," she said, "it's gone."
"Is it gone?"
"It went on."
She had sat up but her warmth was still next to him, and he turned his face against her shoulder.
"It's all right, Hugh. It's all right now."
After a long time his breath came evenly again. He raised his head, and sat up. Irena drew away a little and tried to comb the leaves and dirt out of her hair with her fingers, and rubbed her wet cheeks.
"What now?" she said in a little, husky voice.
"I don't know."

Continues...

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by Le Guin, Ursula K.
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