

The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye
Author: A.S. Byatt
Narrator: Virginia Leishman
Unabridged: 6 hr 21 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Recorded Books
Published: 06/10/2011
Categories: Fiction, Short Stories
Author: A.S. Byatt
Narrator: Virginia Leishman
Unabridged: 6 hr 21 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Recorded Books
Published: 06/10/2011
Categories: Fiction, Short Stories
A. S. Byatt is famed for her short fiction, collected in Sugar and Other Stories, The Matisse Stories, and The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye. Her full-length novels include the Booker Prize-winning Possession, The Biographer's Tale, The Shadow of the Sun and the quartet of novels including The Virgin in the Garden, Still Life, Babel Tower, and soon to be completed by A Whistling Woman. She has also published es of critical work, of which On Histories & Stories is the most recent. She lives in London.
Four short stories precede The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye, and they are fairy tale works of wonder with glittering language and bewitching imagery. "Dragons' Breath," in particular, reads as if it were penned by Tolkien. The titular story comprises the second half of the book, a novella that imp......more
Reading this reminded me of a conversation I had with a friend recently about the films of Wes Anderson and Jim Jarmusch, how I love their artistic sensibilities but yearn in vain for, as my friend said, an intersectional lens. I love these stories but I can't put away my ideological discomfort abou......more
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This book moved up my library list after I saw the trailer for the film ‘Three Thousand Years of Longing’ based on the title story. (It stars Tilda Swinton and Idris Elba!) The first four stories are fairy tales ; sleeping beauties, dragons, princesses, quests, etc, some dark elements with magical wr......more
I read this for the Mythic Fiction book group here on Goodreads, but never got around to going and posting about it over there... A collection of 5 stories - 4 very short, and one novella-length (the title story). The first 4 stories were excellent - but 4.5 stars for the first half of the book, and......more