Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights

Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights by Salman Rushdie, published by Vintage Books in 2016, is a work of fiction that explores a fantastical narrative set in a near-future New York City. The story begins after a storm disrupts the city, leading to a series of strange occurrences involving characters like a gardener who defies gravity and a graphic novelist confronted by a mysterious entity. The narrative intertwines the lives of these individuals, revealing their connections to the jinn, whimsical beings with extraordinary powers.
Readers will encounter a blend of action, adventure, and magical realism as the plot unfolds, highlighting the epic conflict between light and dark. The characters, including a baby who exposes corruption and a seductive gold digger, are descendants of jinn and are drawn into a battle that spans generations. This edition contains 286 pages and is presented in English, inviting readers to delve into a world where beliefs are challenged and the boundaries between reality and fantasy blur.
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“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. 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.”
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