The Beginning Place, Paperback

From multi-award-winning, literary legend Ursula K. Le Guin comes a speculative fiction classic, The Beginning Place.

Fleeing from the monotony of his life, Hugh Rogers finds his way to "the beginning place"--a gateway to Tembreabrezi, an idyllic, unchanging world of eternal twilight.

Irena Pannis was thirteen when she first found the beginning place. Now, seven years later, she has grown to know and love the gentle inhabitants of Tembreabrezi, or Mountaintown, and she sees Hugh as a trespasser.

But then a monstrous shadow threatens to destroy Mountaintown, and Hugh and Irena join forces to seek it out. Along the way, they begin to fall in love. Are they on their way to a new beginning...or a fateful end?

About the Author:

URSULA K. LE GUIN was the acclaimed author of more than three dozen books. She has been shortlisted for the Pulitzer Prize, received the National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, invited into the American Academy of Arts and Letters and won numerous awards for her fiction for children and adults.