01521nam a2200205Ia 4500 20261005112114.0 260603s9999||||xx |||||||||||||| ||und|| 9780099521310 23 823.914 BYA Byatt, A. S. The Djinn In The Nightingale'S Eye / A.S. Byatt Contemporary Fiction Series London : Vintage Books ,1995 288 p. 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. English Fantasy Fiction Fairy Tales Fiction Short Stories RBK 68645 68645 0 0 ddc 0 1 SNUL SNUL 2026-06-03 0 823.914 BYA G7940 2026-06-03 15:18:22 2026-06-03 RBK Prof. Romila Thapar's Collection