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  • The Djinn in the Nightingale’s Eye

  • By: A. S. Byatt
  • Narrated by: Patience Tomlinson
  • Length: 6 hrs and 43 mins
  • 4.4 out of 5 stars (7 ratings)
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Summary

A S Byatt's fairy tales and fables are among the best-loved features of her fiction. Innumerable listeners have asked for the two marvellous fairy tales in Possession - 'The Glass Coffin' and 'Gode's Tale' of the Breton Naie des Trepasses - to be published separately. 

Here they take their place with three other stories with medieval and oriental settings. 

The title story, The Djinn and the Nightingale's Eye, a long story about an Englishwoman in Turkey who unwittingly releases a genie from his bottle, is a reflection on women's lives, on magic and on the power of story-telling itself.
©1994 A. S. Byatt (P)2018 Audible, Ltd
Short Stories Magical Realism Fantasy
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An avenue of diversities

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Interesting

I once tried to read persuasion by the same author, but I just couldn’t get into the story. I watched Three thousand years of yearning, and I liked it that’s why I am here, but again I found it difficult to read, it’s pretentious. The story started well, but then it became a rollercoaster of information. Information that awakened my interest in visiting Turkey, I’ve been in Istanbul, amazing place with unexpected treasures, but at the same time it was distracting and confusing . I think is also the narrator, she is very monotonous.

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