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Miracles and fantasies

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From the author of the Booker Prize-winning novel Possession, as well as Children's Books and Angels and Insects, comes the first volume of her complete short fiction collection, three collections under one cover. "Wonder and Fantasy" reflects the fairytale side of the work of the Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire: "Fairy tales and the folklore tradition itself have long fascinated Byatt (Possession is evidence of this), and now we see that they are simply made for each other" (Financial Times). These stories—"for all their apparent simplicity, surprisingly multi-layered and even allegorical" (Vogue)—"breathe mystery, live passion, pulsate with ancient magic" (Marie Claire). Here, a princess can escape her fairy tale, a snake-like Lamia living in a pool wants to turn into a woman, and a genie, having left a glass bottle made of "nightingale eye" after many years of imprisonment, transports tennis player Boris Becker from the TV screen to a hotel room...
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