Orsinian Tales is a collection of short stories by American writer Ursula K. Le Guin. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the Ursula Kroeber Le Guin (ˈɝsələ ˈkroʊbɚ ləˈgwɪn (born October 21, 1929) is an American author
The setting is a fictional Central European country, at different periods in time ranging from the Middle Ages to the 1960s. A fictional country is a Country that is made up for fictional stories Central Europe is the Region lying between the variously and vaguely defined areas of Eastern and
The cycle was extended by the Borges-like story "Two Delays on the Northern Line" (1979), anthologised in The Compass Rose (1982); and "Unlocking the Air" (1990), anthologised in Unlocking the Air and Other Stories (1996), which is set at the time of the downfall of Communism in Orsinia – and the rest of Eastern Europe – in the winter of 1989. The Compass Rose is a 1982 collection of short stories by Ursula K Unlocking the Air and Other Stories is a 1996 collection of short stories by Ursula K In addition, Le Guin's novel Malafrena is set in the Orsinia of the 1820s. Malafrena is a novel published in 1979 by Ursula K Le Guin. Although she is best known for Science fiction and Fantasy, the only unusual