Items related to Djinn and the Nightingale's Eye: Five Fairy Stories
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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Review:
"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)
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"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)
‘This book is a work of art’ Daily Telegraph
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- PublisherVintage
- Publication date1999
- ISBN 10 0099283352
- ISBN 13 9780099283355
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages592
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