num_pages: 240
description: From the Booker Prize-winning author of Possession comes this richly imaginative story collection that transports the reader to a world where opposites--passion and loneliness, betrayal and loyalty, fire and ice--clash and converge.A beautiful ice maiden risks her life when she falls in love with a desert prince, whose passionate touches scorch her delicate skin. A woman flees the scene of her husband's heart attack, leaving her entire past behind her. Striving to master colour and line, a painter discovers the resolution to his artistic problems when a beautiful and magical water snake appears in his pool. And a wealthy Englishwoman gradually loses her identity while wandering through a shopping mall. Elegantly crafted and suffused with boundless wisdom, these bewitching tales are a testament to a writer at the height of her powers.
language: English
title: Elementals: Stories of Fire and Ice
titlecomplete: Elementals: Stories of Fire and Ice
genres: 20th Century, Short Stories, Literary Fiction, Literature, Fantasy, Fairy Tales, British Literature, Fiction, Contemporary, Magical Realism
ratings_count: 1312
awards: awardedAt: 946713600000
name: Mythopoeic Fantasy Award
category: Adult Literature
publisher: Vintage