The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye
five fairy stories
Fiction, fantasy, short stories
English literature, women authors
Fiction, fantasy, collections & anthologies
English literature, history and criticism, 20th century
English Fantasy fiction
Fiction, short stories (single author)
Fairy tales
Women authors
England, fiction
New York Times reviewed
Fiction
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 t…
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