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Signed By
Salman Rushdie
Era
2010s
Signed
Yes
Ex Libris
No
Inscribed
No
Edition
First Edition
Vintage
No
ISBN
9780812998917
Book Title
Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights
Item Length
9.2in
Publisher
Random House Publishing Group
Publication Year
2015
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Item Height
0.9in
Author
Salman Rushdie
Genre
Fiction
Topic
Fantasy / Contemporary, Magical Realism, Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology, Literary
Item Width
6.2in
Item Weight
18.9 Oz
Number of Pages
304 Pages

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Product Information

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Washington Post Los Angeles Times San Francisco Chronicle Harper s Bazaar St. Louis Post-Dispatch The Guardian The Kansas City Star National Post BookPage Kirkus Reviews From Salman Rushdie, one of the great writers of our time, comes a spellbinding work of fiction that blends history, mythology, and a timeless love story. 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. 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, who live in a world separated from ours by a veil. 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. Inspired by the traditional wonder tales of the East, Salman Rushdie s novel is a masterpiece about the age-old conflicts that remain in today s world. Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights is satirical and bawdy, full of cunning and folly, rivalries and betrayals, kismet and karma, rapture and redemption. Praise for Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights Rushdie is our Scheherazade. . . . This book is a fantasy, a fairytale and a brilliant reflection of and serious meditation on the choices and agonies of our life in this world. Ursula K. Le Guin, The Guardian One of the major literary voices of our time . . . In reading this new book, one cannot escape the feeling that Rushdie s] years of writing and success have perhaps been preparation for this moment, for the creation of this tremendously inventive and timely novel. San Francisco Chronicle A wicked bit of satire . . . Rushdie] riffs and expands on the tales of Scheherazade, another storyteller whose spinning of yarns was a matter of life and death. USA Today A swirling tale of genies and geniuses that] translates the bloody upheavals of our last few decades into the comic-book antics of warring jinn wielding bolts of fire, mystical transmutations and rhyming battle spells. The Washington Post Great fun . . . The novel shines brightest in the panache of its unfolding, the electric grace and nimble eloquence and extraordinary range and layering of his voice. The Boston Globe "

Product Identifiers

Publisher
Random House Publishing Group
ISBN-10
081299891x
ISBN-13
9780812998917
eBay Product ID (ePID)
13038705544

Product Key Features

Book Title
Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights
Author
Salman Rushdie
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Fantasy / Contemporary, Magical Realism, Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology, Literary
Publication Year
2015
Genre
Fiction
Number of Pages
304 Pages

Dimensions

Item Length
9.2in
Item Height
0.9in
Item Width
6.2in
Item Weight
18.9 Oz

Additional Product Features

Lc Classification Number
Pr6068.U757t96 2015
Reviews
"In these nested, swirling tales, [Salman] Rushdie conjures up a whole universe of jinn slithering across time and space, meddling in human affairs and copulating like they've just been released from twenty years in a lamp. . . . Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights translates the bloody upheavals of our last few decades into the comic-book antics of warring jinn wielding bolts of fire, mystical transmutations and rhyming battle spells." -- The Washington Post   " Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights is replete with fantastical creatures, scary monsters, very bad men (or rather, male jinns/genies) and one heroic woman. . . . While Rushdie has written hyped up sagas of worlds colliding before, and always espouses reason over fanaticism, there is something so loopy, so unleashed, about this tale as to make it particularly thrilling." --New York Daily News "Rushdie is our Scheherazade, inexhaustibly enfolding story within story and unfolding tale after tale with such irrepressible delight that it comes as a shock to remember that, like her, he has lived the life of a storyteller in immediate peril. . . . This book is a fantasy, a fairytale--and a brilliant reflection of and serious meditation on the choices and agonies of our life in this world. . . . I like to think how many readers are going to admire the courage of this book, revel in its fierce colors, its boisterousness, humor and tremendous pizzazz, and take delight in its generosity of spirit." --Ursula K. Le Guin, The Guardian   "[A] rambunctious, satirical, and bewitching metaphysical fable, perhaps his most thoroughly enjoyable to date. At once a scholar, rigorous observer, and lavishly imaginative novelist, Rushdie channels his well-informed despair over the brutality and absurdity of human life into works of fantasy. . . . Rushdie is having wickedly wise fun here. Every character has a keenly hilarious backstory, and the action (flying carpets and urns, gigantic attacking serpents, lightning strikes, to-the-death combat, sex) surges from drastic and pulse-raising to exuberantly madcap, magical, and genuinely emotional. . . . [A] fantastically inventive, spirited, astute, and delectable update of One Thousand and One Nights ." -- Booklist (starred review)   "One of his very best books, one whose governing metaphor can be about many terrible truths indeed . . . a sometimes archly elegant, sometimes slightly goofy fairy tale--with a character named Bento V. Elfenbein, how could it be entirely serious?--for grown-ups . . . Beguiling and astonishing, wonderful and wondrous. Rushdie at his best." -- Kirkus Reviews (starred review) "In his latest novel, Rushdie invents his own cultural narrative--one that blends elements of One Thousand and One Nights, Homeric epics, and sci-fi and action/adventure comic books. . . . Referencing Henry James, Mel Brooks, Mickey Mouse, Gracian, Bravo TV, and Aristotle, among others, Rushdie provides readers with an intellectual treasure chest cleverly disguised as a comic pop-culture apocalyptic caprice." -- Publishers Weekly (starred review), Advance praise for Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights   "In his latest novel, [Salman] Rushdie invents his own cultural narrative--one that blends elements of One Thousand and One Nights, Homeric epics, and sci-fi and action/adventure comic books. . . . Referencing Henry James, Mel Brooks, Mickey Mouse, Gracian, Bravo TV, and Aristotle, among others, Rushdie provides readers with an intellectual treasure chest cleverly disguised as a comic pop-culture apocalyptic caprice." -- Publishers Weekly (starred review)   Praise for Salman Rushdie's The Enchantress of Florence   "A romance of beauty and power from Italy to India . . . so delightful an homage to Renaissance magic and wonder." --Michael Dirda, The Washington Post Book World   "This is 'history' jubilantly mixed with postmodernist magic realism." --Joyce Carol Oates, The New York Review of Books   "A baroque whirlwind of a narrative . . . [Rushdie helps] us escape from the present into a dreamlike past that ultimately makes us more aware of the dangers and illusions of our everyday lives." --Alan Cheuse, Chicago Tribune   "Brilliant . . . Rushdie's sumptuous mixture of history and fable is magnificent." --Ursula K. Le Guin, The Guardian (London), "In these nested, swirling tales, [Salman] Rushdie conjures up a whole universe of jinn slithering across time and space, meddling in human affairs and copulating like they've just been released from twenty years in a lamp. . . . Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights translates the bloody upheavals of our last few decades into the comic-book antics of warring jinn wielding bolts of fire, mystical transmutations and rhyming battle spells." -- The Washington Post   " Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights is replete with fantastical creatures, scary monsters, very bad men (or rather, male jinns/genies) and one heroic woman. . . . While Rushdie has written hyped up sagas of worlds colliding before, and always espouses reason over fanaticism, there is something so loopy, so unleashed, about this tale as to make it particularly thrilling." --New York Daily News   "[A] rambunctious, satirical, and bewitching metaphysical fable, perhaps his most thoroughly enjoyable to date. At once a scholar, rigorous observer, and lavishly imaginative novelist, Rushdie channels his well-informed despair over the brutality and absurdity of human life into works of fantasy. . . . Rushdie is having wickedly wise fun here. Every character has a keenly hilarious backstory, and the action (flying carpets and urns, gigantic attacking serpents, lightning strikes, to-the-death combat, sex) surges from drastic and pulse-raising to exuberantly madcap, magical, and genuinely emotional. . . . [A] fantastically inventive, spirited, astute, and delectable update of One Thousand and One Nights ." -- Booklist (starred review)   "One of his very best books, one whose governing metaphor can be about many terrible truths indeed . . . a sometimes archly elegant, sometimes slightly goofy fairy tale--with a character named Bento V. Elfenbein, how could it be entirely serious?--for grown-ups . . . Beguiling and astonishing, wonderful and wondrous. Rushdie at his best." -- Kirkus Reviews (starred review) "In his latest novel, Rushdie invents his own cultural narrative--one that blends elements of One Thousand and One Nights, Homeric epics, and sci-fi and action/adventure comic books. . . . Referencing Henry James, Mel Brooks, Mickey Mouse, Gracian, Bravo TV, and Aristotle, among others, Rushdie provides readers with an intellectual treasure chest cleverly disguised as a comic pop-culture apocalyptic caprice." -- Publishers Weekly (starred review)
Copyright Date
2015
Target Audience
Trade
Lccn
2015-008158
Dewey Decimal
823/.914
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes

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