Djinn & Nightingales Eye

five fairy stories

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A. S. Byatt: Djinn & Nightingales Eye (Hardcover, 1996, Random House (UK))

Hardcover, 154 pages

English language

Published Dec. 6, 1996 by Random House (UK).

ISBN:
978-0-7011-6278-8
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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.

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Subjects

  • Fiction
  • Modern fiction
  • Short stories
  • Fiction - General