by Liza Dalby · Vintage · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780099422358
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«The Tale of Murasaki» is the historical novel by Liza Dalby, published by Vintage in paperback (432 pages, in English).
The novel imagines the life of Murasaki, a woman living in the eleventh-century Japanese imperial court while writing what will become «The Tale of Genji». Through her eyes pass emperors, courtiers, concubines and warriors, and a web of poetry, ceremonies, ambition and romantic intrigues is woven in the palace.
Originally published in 2000, the Vintage edition described here is from 2001. The work belongs to historical fiction and modern narrative.
For readers interested in the eleventh-century Japanese imperial court and the origins of «The Tale of Genji».
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.
