Kalpa Imperial
The Greatest Empire That Never Was
- Author: Angélica Gorodischer (Argentina)
- Book type: Argentinia fantasy novel
- Original: Kalpa Imperial (1983)
- English translation: Ursula K. Le Guin
- Publisher: Penguin Modern Classics
- To be released: July 17, 2026
- Length: 272 pages
- Sizes: 16 x 19,8 x x 13 cm
- Weight: 192 gram
- Format: paperback / ebook
- Prize: £ 10.99 / £ 5.99
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Content of the Angélica Gorodischer fantasy novel
In city squares and golden palaces, a series of storytellers recount the history of the greatest Empire that never was: a history in which orphans rise from the underworld to the throne, mad emperors raze cities, captive dancers induce fatal delirium and murderous empresses plot against their own children.
’s novel, masterfully translated by Ursula K. Le Guin, conjures a vivid fictional universe of labyrinthine cities, desert caravans and the lawless South – and of an Empire fated to rise, fall and rise again.