The Tale Of Murasaki - Liza Dalby • BookLikes (ISBN:0099284642)

The Tale Of Murasaki

by: Liza Dalby (author)

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In a wonderful world shaped by beauty and poetry, ancient traditions and popular intrigue, a young woman at the centre of the eleventh-century Japanese imperial court observes the exotic world around her. Murasaki sees everything, the Emperor and Empress, aristocrats and concubines, warriors and servants, her own family. She records a remarkable place of political and sexual plotting, male power and female manipulation, as she writes the Tale of Genji, the masterpiece of Japanese literature.

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Format: paperback

ISBN: 9780099284642 (0099284642)

Publish date: February 1st 2001

Publisher: Vintage

Edition language: English

Category:

Classics, Novels, Literature, Cultural, Book Club, Historical Fiction, Romance, Asian Literature, Asia, Poetry, Japan, Japanese Literature

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Telynor's Library, and then some rated it

14 years ago

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A gorgeous novel to read, and a delight. It's free of the usual idiocies that most Western novelists tend to throw into Japanese settings, and a must-read for anyone interested in Heian culture or The Tale of Genji. For the longer review, please go here:http://telynor.epinions.com/content_3821388147...

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Bashara Likes Books rated it

17 years ago

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What really shines in this novel is the author's obvious passion and respect for her subject matter - 11th century Japan and the writer Murasaki Shikibu. This is an extremely detailed and well researched 'fictional biography'. She has used her extensive knowledge of the history and culture of Japa...

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Cecily's book reviews rated it

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The first/only American to qualify as a geisha wrote this in the first person, as a semi-fictionalised autobiography of an 11th century author who was also lady-in-waiting to an empress. She was famous for the tales of a character called Genji, but also wrote poems and a journal. The modern author u...

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