by Liza Dalby · Debolsillo · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788483460771
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«La historia de Murasaki» is the historical novel by Liza Dalby, published by Debolsillo in paperback (456 pages, in Spanish).
Murasaki Shikibu, a lady of the eleventh-century Japanese imperial court, invents stories about Prince Genji to combat boredom. Her tales reach the regent and lead her to the palace, where, amid political and romantic intrigues, she will write what is considered the first novel in world literature, «La historia de Genji».
Work originally published in English as «The Tale of Murasaki» (2000). Debolsillo Bestseller collection.
For readers of historical fiction interested in classical Japan and the figure of the first female novelist in literature.
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.
