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The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye: Five Fairy Stories
by A.S. Byatt
January 1, 1994No grades yet
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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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