num_pages: 411
description: In a wonderful world shaped by beauty and poetry, ancient traditions and popular intrigue, a young woman at the centre of the eleventh-century Japanese imperial court observes the exotic world around her. Murasaki sees everything, the Emperor and Empress, aristocrats and concubines, warriors and servants, her own family. She records a remarkable place of political and sexual plotting, male power and female manipulation, as she writes the Tale of Genji, the masterpiece of Japanese literature.
language: English
title: The Tale of Murasaki
titlecomplete: The Tale of Murasaki
characters: Shikibu Murasaki
genres: Asian Literature, Fiction, Japan, Japanese Literature, Historical, Womens, Asia, Historical Fiction, Literature, Poetry
ratings_count: 4364
publisher: Vintage Books