Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights
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Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights by Salman Rushdie
Blending history, mythology and a timeless love story, this is a satirical, magical masterpiece. 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 comic book 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. 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. 'A riotous, exuberant and sometimes maddening celebration of the power of storytelling' Sunday Times
[The book] moves between gentle irony and moments of profound emotionIt is a riotous, exuberant and sometimes maddening celebration of the power of storytelling, and of the importance of education and culture. -- Christina Patterson * Sunday Times *
His usual seamless blend of the realistic and fantastic. * Travel Guide *
Two Years, Eight Months & Twenty-Eight Nights blends Arabian myth, history and sci-fi into a whirlwind fable. * Good Housekeeping *
Rollicking, lyrical and very enjoyable tale. -- Darragh McManus * Irish Independent *
A powerful indictment of religious violence. -- Francesca Wade * Literary Review *
His usual seamless blend of the realistic and fantastic. * Travel Guide *
Two Years, Eight Months & Twenty-Eight Nights blends Arabian myth, history and sci-fi into a whirlwind fable. * Good Housekeeping *
Rollicking, lyrical and very enjoyable tale. -- Darragh McManus * Irish Independent *
A powerful indictment of religious violence. -- Francesca Wade * Literary Review *
Salman Rushdie is one of the world’s most acclaimed, award-winning contemporary authors. Translated into over forty languages, his sixteen works of fiction include Midnight’s Children – for which he won the Booker Prize in 1981, the Booker of Bookers on the 25th anniversary of the prize and Best of the Booker on the 40th anniversary – Shame, The Satanic Verses, Quichotte and Victory City. His latest book, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder was a number one Sunday Times bestseller. A former president of PEN American Center, Rushdie was knighted in 2007 for services to literature and was made a Companion of Honour in the Queen's last Birthday Honours list in 2022.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781784701857 |
| ISBN 10 | 1784701858 |
| Title | Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights |
| Author | Salman Rushdie |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Vintage Publishing |
| Year published | 2016-05-05 |
| Number of pages | 304 |
| Prizes | Long-listed for Tata Literature Live! 2015 (UK), Long-listed for International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award 2017 (UK) |
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