'Lavinia' is Ursula Le Guin's final novel, first published in 2008. It won the Locus Prize for Best Fantasy Novel (2009).
The hero of Virgil's 'Aeneid' fights for the right to possess the daughter of King Latinus, with whom he is destined to found an empire. Lavinia herself receives only a few lines in the poem. In Ursula Le Guin's novel, Lavinia finds a voice: she tells the story of her life—from a young girl who caused a bloody war but stubbornly followed her chosen destiny, to maturity filled with the joy of motherhood and the bitterness of loss.
Lavinia realizes that she is a character in the poem and converses with the 'poet' who invented her and the other characters, who tells his heroine about her future: in the interplay of these two voices across time, two worldviews are juxtaposed.