The Djinn In The Nightingale's Eye by As Byatt

The Djinn In The Nightingale's Eye by As Byatt

A. S. Byatt's fairy-tales and fables are among the best-loved features of her fiction-whether standing alone or inset like jewelled parables in the middle of a complex novel. Innumerable readers have asked for the two marvellous fairy-tales in Possession - 'The Glass Coffin' and 'Gode's Tale' tale of the Breton Baie des Trepasses to be published separately. Here they take their place with three other stories with medieval and oriental settings - 'Tongues of Fire' (written for an international writers' project for aid for Sarajevo), and the title story 'The Djinn in the Nightgale's Eye'. This long story, about an Englishwoman in Turkey who unwittingly releases a genie from his bottle, is a substantial new work, a reflection on women's lives, on magic and on the power of storytelling itself.

A.S.Byatt is a novelist, short story writer, and critic who has received international renown. Possession, which won the Booker Prize, as well as The Children's Book and The Virgin in the Garden, Still Life, Babel Tower, and A Whistling Woman, are among her works. In 1999, she was made a Dame of the British Empire, and she has won numerous awards, including the Commonwealth Writers' Prize, the PEN/Macmillan Silver Pen Award, and the Irish Times International Fiction Prize. She currently resides in London, England.

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ISBN 13	9780701162788
ISBN 10	0701162783
Title	The Djinn In The Nightingale's Eye
Author	As Byatt
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Vintage Publishing
Year published	1994-11-17
Number of pages	288
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