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The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye by A.S. Byatt
This weird book was not a pleasure to read, but my husband and I had some good discussions about whether it was successful or not. He suspects it was an essay she turned into fiction and it works so-so, and I suspect she needed to publish something, anything, and cobbled together a collection from what was available and the resulting book doesn’t cohere. In any case, it seems the sort of thing better studied than read casually. Byatt is not for everyone.
(My husband wanted to read this before watching the movie it inspired—“Three Thousand Years of Longing”—but said it was virtually impossible to find a copy. At which point I went to our home library and grabbed the one marked “Staff Copy,” which I’d taken from my college-era job at Barnes and Noble. He looked at me like I’d just performed a magic trick, which in a way I had.)
(My husband wanted to read this before watching the movie it inspired—“Three Thousand Years of Longing”—but said it was virtually impossible to find a copy. At which point I went to our home library and grabbed the one marked “Staff Copy,” which I’d taken from my college-era job at Barnes and Noble. He looked at me like I’d just performed a magic trick, which in a way I had.)