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Elementals: Stories of Fire and Ice

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.

  • Format
  • paperback
  • Pages
  • 240
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 9780375705755
  • Genres
  • fiction, fantasy, literature, anthologies
  • Release date
  • 2000