The Djinn and the Nightingale's Eye: Five Fairy Stories

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About this book

A collection of six modern fairytales by the author of MATISSE STORIES and POSSESSION, which won the Booker Prize and Irish Times/Aer Lingus International Fiction Prize in 1990.

'A dreamy treat.... It is not merely strange, it is wondrous.' - Boston Globe

'Alternatingly erudite and earthy, direct and playful.... If Scheherazade ever needs a break, Byatt can step in, indefinitely.' - Chicago Tribune

Publishers

  • Original publisher English: Chatto & Windus

About the author & agent

A.S.Byatt
Author
A.S.Byatt
Zoë Waldie
Agent
Zoë Waldie

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