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Two years eight months and twenty-eight nights

  • Salman Rushdie

3.50

2 ratings

"From Salman Rushdie, one of the great writers of our time, comes a spellbinding novel that blends history, mythology, and a timeless love story. A lush modern fairytale 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" -- Provided by publisher.

"Once upon a time, in a world just like ours, there came "the time of the strangenesses." Reason receded and the loudest, most illiberal voices reigned. A simple gardener began to levitate, and a powerful djinn -- also known as the Princess of Fairyland -- raised an army composed entirely of her semi-magical great-great-great-grandchildren. A baby was born with the ability to see corruption in the faces of others. The ghosts of two philosophers, long dead, began arguing once more. And a battle for the kingdom of Fairyland was waged throughout our world for 1,001 nights -- or, to be more precise, for two years, eight months, and twenty-eight nights. Two Years, Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights is a masterful, playfully enchanting meditation on the power of love and the importance of rationality, replete with flying carpets and dynastic intrigue" -- Provided by publisher.

Genres

  • Magic
  • Jinn
  • Fiction
  • FICTION / Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology
  • Arabian nights
  • FICTION / Literary
  • Imaginary wars and battles
  • Good and evil
  • Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology
  • Literary
  • Fantasy
  • General
  • Fiction, fantasy, contemporary
  • British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author)
  • nyt:hardcover-fiction=2015-09-27
  • New York Times bestseller
  • New York Times reviewed
  • Jinn -- Fiction
  • Magic -- Fiction
  • Good and evil -- Fiction
  • Imaginary wars and battles -- Fiction
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About the author

  • Salman Rushdie

    born 1947

    3.80

    123 ratings · 134 works

Editions

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    Seix Barral

    2015-11

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    Random House

    2015

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    Random House

    Sep 08, 2015

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    Jonathan Cape

    2015

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French and European Publications Inc, Actes Sud

Sep 07, 2016

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    French and European Publications Inc, Actes Sud

    Sep 07, 2016

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    French and European Publications Inc, Actes Sud

    Sep 07, 2016

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    French and European Publications Inc, Actes Sud

    Sep 07, 2016

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    Jopnathan Cape

    2015

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    Penguin Random House

    2016

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    Penguin Random House

    2015

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    2017

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    First edition.

    Random House

    2015

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    Knopf Canada

    2015