The Tale Of Murasaki

Author(s): Liza Dalby

Location(s): Kyoto

Genre(s): Fiction, Historical

Era(s): 11th Century

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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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Lead Review (The Tale of Murasaki)

Author: Tina Hartas

Lady Murasaki, noblewoman and lady-in waiting, wrote the classic The Tale of Genji, thought to be the world’s first novel. Little is known about her life, so it is wonderful to be transported to 11th Century Kyoto in the...

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