by Liza Dalby · Grijalbo/dargaud · tapa dura · ISBN 9788425335860
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«La historia de Murasaki: Una cortesana en el palacio imperial» is the historical novel by Liza Dalby published by Grijalbo in hardback (464 pages).
The novel imagines the life of Murasaki Shikibu, a lady of the eleventh-century Japanese court. Her stories about Prince Genji, a pastime, reach the ears of the regent and take her to the imperial palace, where she becomes embroiled in political and romantic intrigues while writing what is considered the first novel in world literature, «La novela de Genji».
The Spanish translation is by Encarna Quijada. The edition belongs to Grijalbo's Bestseller collection.
Readers interested in historical fiction, Japanese culture, and literature set in the imperial court.
Liza Crihfield Dalby is an American anthropologist and novelist specializing in Japanese culture. For her graduate studies, Dalby studied and performed fieldwork in Japan of the geisha community of Ponto-chō, which she wrote about in her Ph.D. dissertation, entitled The institution of the geisha in modern Japanese society. Since that time, she has written five books. Her first book, Geisha, was based on her early research. The next book, Kimono: Fashioning Culture is about traditional Japanese clothing and the history of the kimono. This was followed with a fictional account of the Heian era noblewoman Murasaki Shikibu, titled The Tale of Murasaki. In 2007 she wrote a memoir, East Wind Melts the Ice, which was followed two years later by a second work of fiction, Hidden Buddhas.
