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Search - Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights: A Novel

Two Years Eight Months and TwentyEight Nights A Novel
Author: Salman Rushdie

From Salman Rushdie, one of the great writers of our time, comes a spellbinding work of fiction that blends history, mythology, and a timeless love story. A lush, richly layered novel in which our world has been plunged into an age of unreason, Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights is a breathtaking achievement and an enduring testament... more » to the power of storytelling.

In the near future, after a storm strikes New York City, the strangenesses begin. A down-to-earth gardener finds that his feet no longer touch the ground. A graphic novelist awakens in his bedroom to a mysterious entity that resembles his own sub?Stan Lee creation. Abandoned at the mayor?s office, a baby identifies corruption with her mere presence, marking the guilty with blemishes and boils. A seductive gold digger is soon tapped to combat forces beyond imagining.

Unbeknownst to them, they are all descended from the whimsical, capricious, wanton creatures known as the jinn, who live in a world separated from ours by a veil. Centuries ago, Dunia, a princess of the jinn, fell in love with a mortal man of reason. Together they produced an astonishing number of children, unaware of their fantastical powers, who spread across generations in the human world.

Once the line between worlds is breached on a grand scale, Dunia?s children and others will play a role in an epic war between light and dark spanning a thousand and one nights?or two years, eight months, and twenty-eight nights. It is a time of enormous upheaval, in which beliefs are challenged, words act like poison, silence is a disease, and a noise may contain a hidden curse.

Inspired by the traditional ?wonder tales? of the East, Salman Rushdie?s novel is a masterpiece about the age-old conflicts that remain in today?s world. Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights is satirical and bawdy, full of cunning and folly, rivalries and betrayals, kismet and karma, rapture and redemption.

Praise for Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights

?In these nested, swirling tales, Rushdie conjures up a whole universe of jinn slithering across time and space, meddling in human affairs and copulating like they?ve just been released from twenty years in a lamp. . . . Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights translates the bloody upheavals of our last few decades into the comic-book antics of warring jinn wielding bolts of fire, mystical transmutations and rhyming battle spells.??The Washington Post

?Replete with fantastical creatures, scary monsters, very bad men (or rather, male jinns/genies) and one heroic woman . . . While Rushdie has written hyped up sagas of worlds colliding before, and always espouses reason over fanaticism, there is something so loopy, so unleashed, about this tale as to make it particularly thrilling.??New York Daily News

?[A] rambunctious, satirical, and bewitching metaphysical fable, perhaps his most thoroughly enjoyable to date . . . Rushdie is having wickedly wise fun here.??Booklist (starred review)

?Beguiling and astonishing, wonderful and wondrous. Rushdie at his best.??Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

?Referencing Henry James, Mel Brooks, Mickey Mouse, Gracian, Bravo TV, and Aristotle, among others, Rushdie provides readers with an intellectual treasure chest cleverly disguised as a comic pop-culture apocalyptic caprice.??Publishers Weekly (starred review)

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ISBN-13: 9781101926680
ISBN-10: 1101926686
Publication Date: 9/15/2015
Edition: Unabridged
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Publisher: Random House Audio
Book Type: Audio CD
Other Versions: Paperback, Hardcover
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Genres:

Literature & Fiction >> General >> Literary
Literature & Fiction >> Mythology & Folk Tales
Science Fiction & Fantasy >> Fantasy >> Magical Realism

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