Paperback, 288 pages
English language
Published Oct. 27, 1998 by Vintage.
The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye
by A. S. Byatt
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A collection of fairy tales for adults. The title novella is on a middle-aged Englishwoman attending a writers' conference in Turkey. She picks up an antique bottle and as she is washing it a djinn appears, offering to grant her three wishes. She asks for a younger body, then requests he make love to her.
Subjects
- Literary
- Fantasy fiction
- Fiction - General
- Fiction
- Short Stories (single author)
- Fiction / Literary
- Fantastic fiction, English
- England
- Fairy tales