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{ June 2022 - Verified ebook for complete book description, cover image, table of contents, separation of book (front/ back matter, parts, and chapters), and epub format error checking. } Paperback, 274 pages Published: 1994 Edition: Vintage International (1998) Mythopoeic Fantasy Award (1998) Winner The Djinn in the Nightingale’s Eye: Five Fairy Stories 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

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Author
A. S. Byatt
Publisher
Vintage Books; Random House
Published
1994
Language
EN
ISBN
9780679420088
Category
work of fiction
Subjects
Fiction, Literary Fiction, Short Stories
Rating
3.89 / 5 (2,481 ratings)
Updated
2026-03-14

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