The Tale of Murasaki: A Novel - Softcover

Dalby, Liza

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0385497954 ISBN 13: 9780385497954

Verlag: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2001

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Book by Dalby Liza

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"Luscious, lush and languorously elegant.... You feel you are breathing the air of 11th-century Japan."
--USA Today

"Liza Dalby is not just a remarkable scholar of Japan--she is a keen storyteller."
--Arthur Golden, author of Memoirs of a Geisha

"An impressive spectacle.... Demands to be savored and appreciated."
--San Francisco Sunday Examiner & Chronicle

"An amazing feat.... Anyone already an enthusiast either of [The Tale of] Genji or of Arthur Golden's wonderful Memoirs of a Geisha will already be running to the bookstore for this book.... A wonderful accomplishment."--Newsday

"Exquisite and poetic.... A leisurely, rich novel told in a dreamy style.... Elegant."
--The Times-Picayune (New Orleans)

"Captivating.... The Tale of Murasaki gets the big things right, including, indispensably, the dark undercurrent of sadness running below the bright, embroidered surface.... All this, and much more, rings so true to the created milieu of Genji that one is inclined to indulge Dalby in all she has dreamed or imagined."
--The Washington Post Book World

"Authentic.... Re-creates the life of an 11th-century Scheherazade."
--Entertainment Weekly

Reseña del editor:

The daughter of a mid-ranking court poet, Murasaki Shikibu retreats into her imagination to chase away the blues but soon finds herself telling stories to the empress about the imaginary Prince Genji, in a novel that brings to life the colorful world of eleventh-century Japan and the life of the woman who wrote the world's first novel, The Tale of Genji. Reader's Guide available. Reprint. 40,000 first printing.

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• Verlag: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0385497954
• ISBN 13: 9780385497954
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 448