Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights
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
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Reviews for Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights
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
Great fun.
Fiona Maddocks
Guardian
Sensational… it is unlike not only anything you may have read by Rushdie but by anyone anywhere.
Sathnam Sanghera
The Times
The dark delights that spring from his imagination in this novel have a spellbinding energy that has marked the greatest storytellers since the days for Scheherazade.
Erica Wagner
Observer
Rushdie writes with a happy exuberance.
Allan Massie
Scotman
Vividly described and rich in mayhem.
Eileen Battersby
Irish Times