by Liza Dalby · Vintage · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780099284642
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«The Tale of Murasaki» is the historical novel by Liza Dalby, published by Vintage in paperback (432 pages, in English).
It narrates the life of Murasaki Shikibu, a young lady of the 11th-century Japanese imperial court who wrote «The Tale of Genji», considered the masterpiece of Japanese literature, amid the political and amorous intrigues of the courtly world that surrounded its creation.
Liza Dalby is an anthropologist specializing in Japanese culture and the only Western woman to have become a geisha. The novel was published in February 2001.
Recommended for readers of historical fiction and for those who enjoy the world of «The Tale of Genji» or stories set in classical Japan.
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.
