{"product_id":"9780593466858","title":"Medusa's Ankles","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eA ravishing, luminous selection of short stories from the prize-winning imagination of A. S. Byatt, \"a storyteller who could keep a sultan on the edge of his throne for a thousand and one nights\" (\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e). With an introduction by David Mitchell, best-selling author of \u003ci\u003eCloud Atlas\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eIncludes the story “The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye”—the basis for the George Miller film \u003ci\u003eThree Thousand Years of Longing\u003c\/i\u003e starring Idris Elba and Tilda Swinton\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMirrors shatter at the hairdresser's when a middle-aged client explodes in rage. Snow dusts the warm body of a princess, honing it into something sharp and frosted. Summer sunshine flickers on the face of a smiling child who may or may not be real.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMedusa's Ankles\u003c\/i\u003e celebrates the very best of A. S. Byatt's short fiction, carefully selected from a lifetime of writing. Peopled by artists, poets, and fabulous creatures, the stories blaze with creativity and color. From ancient myth to a British candy factory, from a Chinese restaurant to a Mediterranean swimming pool, from a Turkish bazaar to a fairy-tale palace, Byatt transports her readers beyond the veneer of the ordinary—even beyond the gloss of the fantastical—to places rich and strange and wholly unforgettable.","brand":"A. S. Byatt","offers":[{"title":"Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group |  Paperback \/ softback | Trade paperback (US) |  2022-09-06","offer_id":44151472357631,"sku":"9780593466858","price":24.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0329\/9075\/7001\/products\/BNCImageAPI_ac2d6cc5-d58a-4498-bc90-3facd330be87.jpg?v=1670890181","url":"https:\/\/riverbookshop.com\/products\/9780593466858","provider":"River Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}