Elementals: Stories of Fire and Ice
Author: A.S. Byatt
Desc: 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.