Volume 50, Number 6 · April 10, 2003
Portrait of a Princess
By Gabriele Annan
Diary of a Djinn
by Gini Alhadeff
Pantheon, 214 pp., $22.00
Gini Alhadeff's first book (this is her second) was a memoir called The Sun at Midday. If you have read it, then Diary of a Djinn will read more like a fantasia on some of the author's experiences than like a novel, especially since there is no plot or continuous story, just episodes from a career very like her own. The book consists of three short sections, each set at a different stage in the life of the unnamed female first-person narrator. The djinn of the title, described as some sort of spirit within the body, speaks in the first person too, but is heard only in separate, italicized passages. It introduces itself:
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