# The Tale Of Murasaki

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- Book: [The Tale Of Murasaki](https://www.bookquiver.com/liza-dalby/the-tale-of-murasaki) ([The Tale Of Murasaki.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/liza-dalby/the-tale-of-murasaki.md))
- Authors: [Liza Dalby](https://www.bookquiver.com/liza-dalby)
- Publisher: Vintage
- ISBN: 978-00-9956-525-3
- Pages: 432
- Published: 2011-06-07
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

In a wonderful world shaped by beauty and poetry, ancient traditions and popular intrigue, a young woman at the centre of the eleventh-century Japanese imperial court observes the exotic world around her. Murasaki sees everything, the Emperor and Empress, aristocrats and concubines, warriors and servants, her own family. She records a remarkable place of political and sexual plotting, male power and female manipulation, as she writes the Tale of Genji , the masterpiece of Japanese literature.