Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights
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Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights by Salman Rushdie
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 to the power of storytelling.
"[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 *
"I like to think how many readers are going to admire the courage of this book, revel in its fierce colours, its boisterousness, humour and tremendous pizzazz, and take delight in its generosity of spirit." -- Ursula K Le Guin * Guardian *
"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 *
"I like to think how many readers are going to admire the courage of this book, revel in its fierce colours, its boisterousness, humour and tremendous pizzazz, and take delight in its generosity of spirit." -- Ursula K Le Guin * Guardian *
"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 *
Sir Salman Rushdie has received many awards for his writing, including the European Union’s Aristeion Prize for Literature. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and Commandeur de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. In 1993 Midnight’s Children was judged to be the `Booker of Bookers’, the best novel to have won the Booker Prize in its first 25 years. In June 2007 he received a knighthood in the Queen’s Birthday Honours.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781910702048 |
| ISBN 10 | 1910702048 |
| Title | Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights |
| Author | Salman Rushdie |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Vintage Publishing |
| Year published | 2015-09-10 |
| Number of pages | 304 |
| Prizes | Long-listed for Tata Literature Live! 2015 (UK) |
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