Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye

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A. S. Byatt: Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye (2009, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group)

English language

Published Dec. 6, 2009 by Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group.

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978-1-299-02306-2
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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.

12 editions

Subjects

  • Fiction, short stories (single author)
  • England, fiction
  • Fiction, fantasy, collections & anthologies