The Djinn in the Nightingale’s Eye cover art

The Djinn in the Nightingale’s Eye

 Preview

Audible Standard 30-day free trial

Try Standard free
Select 1 audiobook a month from our entire collection.
Listen to your selected audiobooks as long as you're a member.
Get unlimited access to bingeable podcasts.
Standard auto renews for £5.99 a month after 30 days. Cancel anytime.

The Djinn in the Nightingale’s Eye

By: A. S. Byatt
Narrated by: Patience Tomlinson
Try Standard free

£5.99 a month after 30 days. Cancel anytime.

Buy Now for £13.25

Buy Now for £13.25

About this listen

A S Byatt's fairy tales and fables are among the best-loved features of her fiction. Innumerable listeners have asked for the two marvellous fairy tales in Possession - 'The Glass Coffin' and 'Gode's Tale' of the Breton Naie des Trepasses - to be published separately.

Here they take their place with three other stories with medieval and oriental settings.

The title story, The Djinn and the Nightingale's Eye, a long story about an Englishwoman in Turkey who unwittingly releases a genie from his bottle, is a reflection on women's lives, on magic and on the power of story-telling itself.

©1994 A. S. Byatt (P)2018 Audible, Ltd Anthologies & Short Stories Fantasy Fiction Genre Fiction Magic Magical Realism Short Stories
All stars
Most relevant
Transfixed, transported, transendentalised, entranced, enlightened, consumed, complexed, refracted, beautified, impressed, affirmed, loved, lived, contented. Thank you.

An avenue of diversities

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
I once tried to read persuasion by the same author, but I just couldn’t get into the story. I watched Three thousand years of yearning, and I liked it that’s why I am here, but again I found it difficult to read, it’s pretentious. The story started well, but then it became a rollercoaster of information. Information that awakened my interest in visiting Turkey, I’ve been in Istanbul, amazing place with unexpected treasures, but at the same time it was distracting and confusing . I think is also the narrator, she is very monotonous.

Interesting

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.