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From the cloistered world of a Florentine boarding school in the 1960s, to a glamorous Milan fashion house in the 1980s, to Manhattan in the 1990s, a vivid debut novel follows the female narrator and her alter ego, the playful and watchful Djinn, through life. By the author of The Sun at Midday. A first novel. 15,000 first printing.
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Gini Alhadeff grew up in Egypt, the Sudan, Italy, and Japan. She studied fine art and photography at Harrow in England and at Pratt Institute in New York. She has worked as a translator, founded two literary reviews, Normal and XXIst Century, and is a contributing editor for Travel+Leisure. Alhadeff is the author of a memoir, The Sun at Midday, Tales of a Mediterranean Family. She lives in New York City.
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hor of the highly praised memoir The Sun at Midday comes this witty and bewitching first novel. Diary of a Djinn takes the narrator and her alter ego, the playful and watchful djinn, on a series of adventures from the glamorous rigors of a Milan fashion house in the 1980s, where the narrator is a reluctant muse to the designer, to 1990s Manhattan. In a humorous flashback, she revisits the cloistered life of a Florentine boarding school filled with the daughters of blueboods and industrialists—a time of comic/catastrophic infatuations with improbable men. In New York, she finally meets Hare –perfect, as the djinn comments, “because he was not ‘free’...a way for her to get used to the idea that people are not possessions.” She is befriended by his mother, the indomitable octogenarian Princess who wears Givenchy and Courrèges, swears by Leopardi and Shakespeare, and believes that art should be left to geniuses but otherwise discourage
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- PublisherPantheon Books
- Publication date2003
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- ISBN 13 9780375402340
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