Orsinia (Deluxe Edition): Malafrena, Stories, and Songs

This special deluxe edition features a beautiful new cover, designed edges and endpapers, and a map insert drawn by Ursula K. Le Guin.

An epic collection featuring the “masterpiece” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) Malafrena and continuing stories about the imaginary Central European country Orsinia, from one of our greatest writers of speculative fiction, Ursula K. Le Guin.

Among the less-traveled mountains and plains of Central Europe, a little east of Austria perhaps and north of Slovenia, lies the old kingdom of Orsinia. A land of forests and quiet farmlands and towns, with its capital city Krasnoy on the broad Molsen River, Orsinia has always found itself, like all the countries of Europe, subject to forces beyond its borders. Yet, cast as they are in the shadow of tyrannies both Western and Eastern, the lives and dreams of its free people are no less important than the great arguments of Europe’s emperors and dictators.

Here then are those lives: in tales of romance and bloodlust, hope and fear, freedom and tyranny, passion and despair. Tales of love, life, death, and—amidst the great 19th-century rise of liberalism and nationalism—a tale of revolution against the might of the Hapsburg Empire.

This is Orsinia and these are her stories.