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The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye: Five Fairy Stories

The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye: Five Fairy Stories

by A.S. Byatt

  • 1994
  • ~280 pages
  • 3.8 ★
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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