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The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye

By Byatt, A S

The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye book

The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye

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The magnificent title story of this collection of fairy tales for adults describes the strange and uncanny relationship between its extravagantly intelligent heroine--a world renowned scholar of the art of story-telling--and the marvelous being that lives in a mysterious bottle, found in a dusty shop in an Istanbul bazaar. As A.S. Byatt renders this relationship with a powerful combination of erudition and passion, she makes the interaction of the natural and the supernatural seem not only convincing, but inevitable. The companion stories in this collection each display different facets of Byatt's remarkable gift for enchantment. They range from fables of sexual obsession to allegories of political tragedy; they draw us into narratives that are as mesmerizing as dreams and as bracing as philosophical meditations; and they all us to inhabit an imaginative universe astonishing in the precision of its detail, its intellectual consistency, and its splendor. "A dreamy treat.... It is not merely strange, it is wondrous." --Boston Globe "Alternatingly erudite and earthy, direct and playful.... If Scheherazade ever needs a break, Byatt can step in, indefinitely." --Chicago Tribune "Byatt's writing is crystalline and splendidly imaginative.... These [are] perfectly formed tales." --Washington Post Book World
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
illustrated
Number of Pages:
288
Release Date:
1998-11-01
Publication Date:
1998-10-27
Publisher:
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0679762221
ISBN13:
9780679762225
Weight:
240 g
Height:
132 cm
Width:
203 cm
Thickness:
20 cm
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