TY  - BOOK
AU  - Dalby, Liza Crihfield.
TI  - The tale of Murasaki: a novel 
SN  - 701169303
AV  - FIC .D35 2000 
PY  - 2000///
CY  - London, United Kingdom
PB  - Chatto & Windus
KW  - MANNERS AND CUSTOMS -- HISTORICAL FICTION
N1  - 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
N2  - 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
ER  -