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The Beginning Place

by Ursula K. Le Guin

A passage to an unchanging world

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A passage to an unchanging world

Hugh Rogers reaches the beginning place while trying to escape the sameness of his life: a gateway to Tembreabrezi, a world held in eternal twilight. Irena Pannis has known this place since childhood and regards Hugh as an intruder. When a threatening shadow endangers Mountaintown, the two set out together to confront it. Their uneasy alliance brings the book’s fantasy elements into contact with a developing romance, while the contrast between Hugh’s desire for change and Irena’s long familiarity with Tembreabrezi gives the journey its central tension.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers interested in portal fantasy and imagined worlds.
  • Readers who enjoy romance woven into a fantasy quest.
  • Readers drawn to stories about escape, belonging, and change.

Themes

Escape and changeBelongingTrust and cooperationRomanceThreatened sanctuary

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Book overview

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?

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