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. Reprint. 12,500 first printing.
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About the Author:
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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- PublisherAnchor Books
- Publication date2004
- ISBN 10 1400034612
- ISBN 13 9781400034611
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages224
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