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- catalog abstract ""The sensitive and modest daughter of a mid-ranking court poet, Murasaki Shikibu staves off loneliness with her acitve imagination, telling stories about the dashing Prince Genji to her close friends. At first, they are their private entertainment, but soon Genji's amorous adventures are leaked to the public and Murasaki is thrust into the life of a kind of eleventh-century Japanese celebrity. She is compelled by a charismatic regent to accept a position at court regaling the empress with her stories. At court, Lady Murasaki becomes caught in a vortex of high politics and sexual intrigue, which begins to reflect itself in her stories."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b11522810.
- catalog coverage "Japan Court and courtiers Fiction.".
- catalog coverage "Japan History Heian period, 794-1185 Fiction.".
- catalog created "c2000.".
- catalog date "2000".
- catalog date "c2000.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2000.".
- catalog description ""The sensitive and modest daughter of a mid-ranking court poet, Murasaki Shikibu staves off loneliness with her acitve imagination, telling stories about the dashing Prince Genji to her close friends. At first, they are their private entertainment, but soon Genji's amorous adventures are leaked to the public and Murasaki is thrust into the life of a kind of eleventh-century Japanese celebrity. She is compelled by a charismatic regent to accept a position at court regaling the empress with her stories. At court, Lady Murasaki becomes caught in a vortex of high politics and sexual intrigue, which begins to reflect itself in her stories."--Jacket.".
- catalog extent "xix, 426 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Tale of Murasaki.".
- catalog isFormatOf "Tale of Murasaki.".
- catalog issued "2000".
- catalog issued "c2000.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Nan A. Talese, Doubleday,".
- catalog relation "Tale of Murasaki.".
- catalog spatial "Japan Court and courtiers Fiction.".
- catalog spatial "Japan History Heian period, 794-1185 Fiction.".
- catalog subject "813/.54 21".
- catalog subject "Murasaki Shikibu, 978?- Fiction.".
- catalog subject "PL788.4.Z5 D35 2000".
- catalog subject "Women authors Fiction.".
- catalog title "The tale of Murasaki : a novel / by Liza Dalby.".
- catalog type "Biographical fiction. gsafd".
- catalog type "Fiction. fast".
- catalog type "Historical fiction. gsafd".
- catalog type "text".