The tale of Murasaki : a novel /
Liza Crihfield Dalby
- London, United Kingdom : Chatto & Windus, c2000
- xvii, 426 pages ; 24 cm.
My gossamer hermitage -- The early journal -- Chifuru -- Night of the Hazy Moon -- Morning glory -- Willows -- Ruri, Blue like lapis lazuli -- The cuckoo -- Worms -- The new year -- A travel journal -- The pillow book -- Bright country -- The snow, the moon -- The east wind melts the ice -- Tales of china -- Exile.
The daughter of a mid-ranking court poet, Murasaki Shikibu retreats into her imagination to chase away the blues but soon finds herself telling stories to the empress about the imaginary Prince Genji, in a novel that brings to life the colorful world of eleventh-century Japan and the life of the woman who wrote the world's first novel, The Tale of Genji.