# 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: anchor
- ISBN: 978-03-8549-795-4
- Pages: 448
- Published: 2001-08-21
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

The Tale of Murasaki is an elegant and brilliantly authentic historical novel by the author of Geisha and the only Westerner ever to have become a geisha. In the eleventh century Murasaki Shikibu wrote...