The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye: Five Fairy Stories - Rilegato

A.S. Byatt

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ISBN 10: 0701162783 ISBN 13: 9780701162788

Casa editrice: Chatto and Windus, 1994

Riassunto

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.

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Recensione:

"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

"Byatt's writing is crystalline and splendidly imaginative.... These [are] perfectly formed tales." — Washington Post Book World

L'autore:

A.S. Byatt is internationally known as a novelist, short-story writer and critic. Her novels include Possession (winner of the Booker Prize in 1990), and the quartet of The Virgin in the Garden, Still Life, Babel Tower and A Whistling Woman, as well as The Shadow of the Sun, The Game and The Biographer s Tale. Her latest novel, The Children's Book, is shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2009. She is also the author of two novellas, published together as Angels and Insects, and four collections of stories, and has co-edited Memory: An Anthology.

Educated at York and Newnham College, Cambridge, she taught at the Central School of Art and Design, and was Senior Lecturer in English at University College, London, before becoming a full-time writer in 1983. She was appointed CBE in 1990 and DBE in 1999.

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• Editore: Chatto and Windus
• Data di pubblicazione: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0701162783
• ISBN 13: 9780701162788
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 154