In the Haghia Sophia she had her third encounter with Fate, or with something. Our thrones are portable treasures, our throne-rooms resemble tents, we put our skill into small things, daggers and bowls and cups.’ She remembered the rhythms of his recitation of the poem of the red horsemen. We came over the steppes from Mongolia, from China. These perfectly formed tales."-Washington Post Book World If Scheherazade ever needs a break, Byatt can step in, indefinitely."-Chicago Tribune"Byatt's writing is crystalline and splendidly imaginative. It is not merely strange, it is wondrous."-Boston Globe"Alternatingly erudite and earthy, direct and playful. They range from fables of sexual obsession to allegories of political tragedy they draw us into narratives that are as mesmerizing as dreams and as bracing as philosophical meditations and they all us to inhabit an imaginative universe astonishing in the precision of its detail, its intellectual consistency, and its splendor."A dreamy treat. Byatt renders this relationship with a powerful combination of erudition and passion, she makes the interaction of the natural and the supernatural seem not only convincing, but inevitable.The companion stories in this collection each display different facets of Byatt's remarkable gift for enchantment. The magnificent title story of this collection of fairy tales for adults describes the strange and uncanny relationship between its extravagantly intelligent heroine-a world renowned scholar of the art of story-telling-and the marvelous being that lives in a mysterious bottle, found in a dusty shop in an Istanbul bazaar.
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