Two Years Eight Month And (PB)

New York Times best sellerNamed 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 28 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)