The Tale Of Murasaki
Published on 7. June 2011
Book
Paperback/Softback
432 pages
978-0-09-956525-3 (ISBN)
Description
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.
Reviews / Votes
The Tale of Murasaki brings vividly to life the fascinating eleventh-century world of the creator of Japan's enduring masterpiece, Tale of Genji -- Arthur Golden, author of 'Memoirs of a Geisha' Enter the exotic, entrancing world of the Japanese Imperial court...for a gentle immersion in a world of long ago and far away, The Tale of Murasaki is just the ticket...hypnotic * The Times * Luscious, lush and languorously elegant... You feel you are breathing the air of 11th-century Japan * USA Today * Captivating... The Tale of Murasaki gets the big things right, including, indispensably, the dark undercurrent of sadness running below the bright, embroidered surface... All this, and much more, rings so true to the created milieu of Genji that one is inclined to indulge Dalby in all she has dreamed or imagined * Washington Post Book World * An amazing feat... Anyone already an enthusiast either of Tale of Genji or of Arthur Golden's wonderful Memoirs of a Geisha will already be running to the bookstore for this book... A wonderful accomplishment * Newsday * Liza Dalby is not just a remarkable scholar of Japan - she is a keen storyteller -- Arthur Golden, author of 'Memoirs of a Geisha'More details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Vintage Publishing
Product notice
Paperback (UK-B)
Dimensions
Height: 198 mm
Width: 129 mm
Thickness: 26 mm
Weight
514 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-09-956525-3 (9780099565253)
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Schweitzer Classification
Person
Liza Dalby is an anthropologist specialising in Japanese culture and the only Westerner to have become a geisha. She is the author of The Tale of Murasaki, Geisha and consulted on Steven Spielberg's film of Memoirs of a Geisha. She lives in California with her husband and three children.