The Tale of Murasaki

by Liza Dalby (Author), Liza Dalby (Author)

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  2001

  $3.25

  In a wonderful world shaped by beauty and poetry, ancient traditions and popular intrigue, a young woman at the centre of the eleventh-century Japanese imperial court observes the exotic world around her. Murasaki sees everything, the Emperor and Empress, aristocrats and concubines, warriors and servants, her own family. She records a remarkable place of political and sexual plotting, male power and female manipulation, as she writes the Tale of Genji, the masterpiece of Japanese literature.

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  Paperback
  2001

  $3.25

  Arguably the world's first novelist, Murasaki Shikibu wrote The Tale of Genji in the 11th century. Liza Dalby's novel is based on existing fragments of Murasaki's diary and poems and is a fictional account of Japan's most famous female writer.