![]() "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. ![]() "Byatt's writing is crystalline and splendidly imaginative. If Scheherazade ever needs a break, Byatt can step in, indefinitely." "Alternatingly erudite and earthy, direct and playful. It is not merely strange, it is wondrous." They range from fables of sexual obsession to allegories of political tragedy they draw us into narratives that are as mesmerizing as dreams and as bracing as philosophical meditations and they all us to inhabit an imaginative universe astonishing in the precision of its detail, its intellectual consistency, and its splendor. ![]() ![]() The companion stories in this collection each display different facets of Byatt's remarkable gift for enchantment. Byatt renders this relationship with a powerful combination of erudition and passion, she makes the interaction of the natural and the supernatural seem not only convincing, but inevitable. The magnificent title story of this collection of fairy tales for adults describes the strange and uncanny relationship between its extravagantly intelligent heroine-a world renowned scholar of the art of story-telling-and the marvelous being that lives in a mysterious bottle, found in a dusty shop in an Istanbul bazaar. ![]()
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