The Tale of Murasaki by Liza Dalby

The Tale of Murasaki

Liza Dalby

448 pages first pub 2000 (editions)

fiction historical challenging informative mysterious slow-paced
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The Tale of Murasaki is an elegant and brilliantly authentic historical novel by the author of Geisha and the only Westerner ever to have become a geisha. In the eleventh century Murasaki Shikibu wrote the world's first novel, The Tale of Genji, t...

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