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The Djinn In The Nightingale's Eye: Five Fairy Stories

The Djinn In The Nightingale's Eye: Five Fairy Stories

by A S Byatt (Author), A S Byatt (Author), A S Byatt (Author)

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    Paperback 1995

    $4.56

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    Paperback 1998

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Synopsis

A S Byatt's fairy tales and fables are among the best-loved features of her fiction. Innumerable readers have asked for the two marvellous fairy tales in POSSESSION - 'The Glass Coffin' and 'Gode's Tale' of the Breton Naie des Trepasses - to be published seperately. Here they take their place with three other stories with medieval and oriental settings. The title story, 'The Djinn and the Nightingale's Eye', a long story about an Englishwoman in Turkey who unwittingly releases a genie from his bottle, is a reflection on women's lives, on magic and on the power of storytelling itself.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 288
 Edition: New edition
 Publisher: Vintage
Published: 07 Sep 1995
ISBN 10: 0099521318
ISBN 13: 9780099521310
Book Overview: 'This book is a work of art' Daily Telegraph

Media Reviews
Those new to the world of Byatt might well begin here, with these tales-within-tales, which one can read as anything from contemporary allegories - such as the superb Dragon's Breath, evoking every idyll that ever fell foul of war or famine - to sheer celebrations of storytelling itself * Vogue *
The familiar elements of fairy story come to life under A.S. Byatt's touch...with lightness, precision, grace * Observer *
A cerebral extravaganza, bristling with ideas * Spectator *
The fairy story is obviously a form that fascinates A.S. Byatt, it suits her spare, cool prose and this collection enables her to create very different effects... a beautifully produced book * Financial Times *
Author Bio
A.S. Byatt is a novelist, short-story writer and critic of international renown. Her novels include Possession (winner of the Booker Prize 1990), the Frederica Quartet and The Children's Book, which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction. She was appointed CBE in 1990 and DBE in 1999, and was awarded the Erasmus Prize 2016 for her `inspiring contribution to life writing' and the Pak Kyongni Prize 2017. In 2018 she received the Hans Christian Andersen Literature Award.