The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye - Five Fairy Stories

Informationen zum Autor A.S. Byatt (1936-2023) was a novelist, short-story writer and critic of international renown. Her novels include Possession (winner of the Booker Prize 1990), the Frederica Quartet and The Children’s Book , which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction. She was appointed CBE in 1990 and DBE in 1999, and was awarded the Erasmus Prize 2016 for her ‘inspiring contribution to life writing’ and the Pak Kyongni Prize 2017. In 2018 she received the Hans Christian Andersen Literature Award. Klappentext The title story, 'The Djinn and the Nightingale's Eye', a long story about an Englishwoman in Turkey who unwittingly releases a genie from his bottle, is a reflection on women's lives, on magic and on the power of storytelling itself. Zusammenfassung The title story, 'The Djinn and the Nightingale's Eye', a long story about an Englishwoman in Turkey who unwittingly releases a genie from his bottle, is a reflection on women's lives, on magic and on the power of storytelling itself.

Product details

• Authors: A S Byatt, A. S. Byatt, A.S. Byatt
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 07.09.1995
• EAN: 9780099521310
• ISBN: 978-0-09-952131-0
• No. of pages: 288
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 22 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Short Stories (single author), Short Stories, FICTION / Magical Realism, Magical Realism