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<p><P>The magnificent title story of this collection of fairy tales for adults describes the strange and uncanny relationship between its extravagantly intelligent heroine&#151;a world renowned scholar of the art of story-telling&#151;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.<br><br>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.<br><br>&quot;A dreamy treat.... It is not merely strange, it is wondrous.&quot;<br>&#151;<i>Boston Globe</i><br><br>&quot;Alternatingly erudite and earthy, direct and playful.... If Scheherazade ever needs a bre

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Author

A. S. Byatt

Publisher

Vintage International

Published

1998

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