Fiction/Literature

  THE DJINN IN THE NIGHTINGALE’S EYE

  In this collection of fairy tales for adults, the title story describes the relationship between a world renowned scholar of the art of storytelling and the marvelous being that lives in a bottle found in an Istanbul bazaar. Byatt renders this interaction of the natural and supernatural not only convincing, but inevitable.

  Fiction/Literature

  ELEMENTALS

  A beautiful ice maiden risks her life when she falls in love with a desert prince. Striving to master color and line, a painter solves his artistic problems when a magical water snake appears in his pool. Elegantly crafted and suffused with wisdom, these tales are a testament to a writer at the height of her powers.

  Fiction/Literature

  THE GAME

  The Game portrays the sibling rivalry between Cassandra and Julia who, as little girls, played a game in which they entered an alternate world modeled after Arthurian romance. Now they are hostile strangers, until a man they loved and suffered over reenters their lives.

  Fiction/Literature

  IMAGINING CHARACTERS

  In this innovative book, Byatt and the psychoanalyst Ignês Sodré bring their sensibilities to bear on six novels they have loved: Jane Austen’s Mansfield Park, Charlotte Brontë’s Villette, George Eliot’s Daniel Deronda, Willa Cather’s The Professor’s House, Iris Murdoch’s An Unofficial Rose, and Toni Morrison’s Beloved.

  Literary Criticism

  THE MATISSE STORIES

  Each of these narratives is inspired by a painting of Henri Matisse, and each is about the intimate connection between seeing and feeling. Beautifully written, intensely observed, The Matisse Stories is fiction of spellbinding authority.

  Fiction/Literature

  PASSIONS OF THE MIND

  Whether she is writing about George Eliot or Sylvia Plath, Victorian spiritual malaise or Toni Morrison, or the ambitions that underlie her own fiction, Byatt manages to be challenging, entertaining, and unflinchingly committed to the alliance of literature and life.

  Literary Criticism

  SUGAR AND OTHER STORIES

  These short stories explore the fragile ties between generations and the dizzying abyss of loss and the memories we construct against it, resulting in a book that compels us to inhabit other lives and return to our own with knowledge, compassion, and a sense of wonder.

  Fiction/Literature

  THE VIRGIN IN THE GARDEN

  A tale of a brilliant and eccentric family fatefully divided, The Virgin in the Garden is a wonderfully erudite entertainment in which enlightenment and sexuality, Elizabethan drama and contemporary comedy, intersect richly and unpredictably.

  Fiction/Literature

  A WHISTLING WOMAN

  Frederica lucks into a job hosting a groundbreaking television talk show based in London. Meanwhile, the University is planning a conference on body and mind, and students are establishing an Anti-University. A Whistling Woman is a thought-provoking meditation on psychology, science, religion, ethics, and radicalism and their effects on ordinary lives.

  Fiction/Literature

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  A. S. Byatt, The Biographer's Tale

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