# The Djinn In The Nightingale's Eye

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- Authors: [Antonia S. Byatt](https://www.bookquiver.com/a-s-byatt)
- Publisher: Vintage
- ISBN: 978-00-9952-131-0
- Pages: 288
- Published: 1995-09-07
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

A S Byatt's fairy tales and fables are among the best-loved features of her fiction. Innumerable readers 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 seperately. 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 storytelling itself.