The Tale of Murasaki

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. 'Enter the exotic, entrancing world of the Japanese Imperial court...for a gentle immersion in a world of long ago and far away. The Tale of Murasaki is just the ticket...hypnotic' The Times