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The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye
five fairy stories
by A. S. Byatt
4 · 274 pages · First published 1994
A collection of fairy tales for adults. The title novella is on a middle-aged Englishwoman attending a writers' conference in Turkey. She picks up an antique bottle and as she is washing it a djinn appears, offering to grant her three wishes. She asks for a younger body, then requests he make love to her.
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English Fantasy fictionFairy talesFiction, short stories (single author)England, fictionFiction, fantasy, short storiesFiction, fantasy, collections & anthologiesWomen authorsNew York Times reviewedEnglish literature, history and criticism, 20th centuryEnglish literature, women authorsEnglish literature, history and criticism, 21st centuryFiction
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