THE DJINN IN THE NIGHTINGALE'S EYE: Five Fairy Stories

by Byatt, A. S

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New York, NY, U.S.A.: Random House, Incorporated, 1997. Readers of ANGELS & INSECTS and Byatt's Booker Prize-winning novel, POSSESSION, have already encountered some of the unforgettable Victorian fairy tales that are woven into her fiction and have asked for more. Two of these, "The Glass Coffin," and "Gode's Story," are included here, with three contemporary additions: "The Story of the Eldest Princess," "Dragon's Breath," and the incomparable novella-length title story. In the latter, Gillian Perholt, an independent and sensible scholar, no longer young, is given a bottle of beautiful "nightingale's eye" glass by a Turkish friend. Trapped inside is a huge (and very male) djinn, a magical genie who must grant her three wishes in return for his release. Gillian's use of her three wishes is careful and surprising: she is an expert in fairy stories and in what can go wrong with wishes. The story takes the professor and the djinn from Istanbul to Toronto and Madison Avenue, as the two discover each other's worlds with respect, and something more. Byatt's inventive and enticing stories, collected here for the first time, are both magical and very modern. They are fairy tales for adults, which retain the mystery and beauty of the world we imagine as children. As new, unread copy, in fine, mylar-protected dust jacket.. ISBN: 0679420088. First U.S. Edition. Hard Cover. As New/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. ENGLAND FICTION FANTASY GENERAL SHORT STORIES SINGLE AUTHOR.