Malafrena - 369 pages, 19th-century historical novel set in an imaginary Europe, &&
Based on this book, I've decided that LeGuin's Orsinian stories don't work for me. They're not imaginary enough to qualify as fantastic, but Orsinia is too hard to pin down as a nation, while too typically evocative of west-central Europe in its general folkways,
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