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Oriental Tales

Marguerite Yourcenar

These tales draw inspiration from the East yet follow no established tradition as their language, rich in images, calls up other, secret meanings, in stories of a painter bewitched by images, a hero betrayed, and of the unhappiness of the goddess Kali

GenresOrientSocial life and customsFiction

147 pages

English edition · First published 1985 by Farrar Straus Giroux · ISBN 9780374227289

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