The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye
five fairy stories
About this book
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.
Subjects
- england, fiction
- english fantasy fiction
- english literature, history and criticism, 20th century
- english literature, history and criticism, 21st century
- english literature, women authors
- fairy tales
- fiction
- fiction, fantasy, collections & anthologies
- fiction, fantasy, short stories
- fiction, short stories (single author)
- new york times reviewed
- women authors