Lavinia

A fast-paced read, which was a change of pace from my experience of Le Guin's other writing, which tends to be very measured (even, sometimes, ponderous). As usual, a real sense of immersion into a place and time and culture, though less anthropologically-minded than some of her other work (e.g., The Dispossessed, Always Coming Home). You can read this in a weekend if you do nothing else; in a week if you have more going on in your life. And it's well worth the time.