The Genie in the Nightingale's Eye

The Genie in the Nightingale's Eye Book Description Gillian Perholt, a literary writer and storyteller who gives lectures on fairy tales all over the world, one day falls into Istanbul. Visiting the Grand Bazaar, Perholt buys a dusty, shabby fountain from one of the shops there. However, while he thinks he has added a rare piece to his glass globe collection, he finds himself in the leading role of a magical adventure where fairy tales and reality intertwine. In this selection consisting of four stories and a novella, Booker Prize-winning British poet and novelist AS Byatt reinterprets tales that have been told for centuries, allowing us to look at them from a different perspective. In the stories in the selection, animals speak, dragons breathe fire, heroes hit the road, wishes come true... But no matter what, the secret of everything lies in the magic of storytelling. “Once upon a time, while men and women were flying in the skies on metal wings, walking on the bottom of the seas wearing duck feet, listening to the speech of whales and the songs of dolphins, while the ghosts of adorned Texas shepherds and houris were seen in the evenings on the hills of Nicaragua, people living in Norway and Tasmania While she could dream of fresh strawberries, dates, guava or passion fruit in the middle of winter and find these fruits on her table the next morning, there lived a woman who was largely indifferent to all this, and therefore happy. This woman's job was to tell stories..." (From the Promotional Bulletin)