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 subndashStan Lee creation Abandoned at the mayorrsquos 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 Duniarsquos children and others will play a role in an epic war between light and dark spanning a thousand and one nightsmdashor 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 ldquowonder talesrdquo of the East Salman Rushdiersquos novel is a masterpiece about the age-old conflicts that remain in todayrsquos 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 redemptionAdvance praise for Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights ldquoIn his latest novel Salman Rushdie invents his own cultural narrativemdashone that blends elements of One Thousand and One Nights Homeric epics and sci-fi and actionadventure 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 capricerdquomdashPublishers Weekly starred review Praise for Salman Rushdiersquos The Enchantress of Florence ldquoA romance of beauty and power from Italy to India so delightful an homage to Renaissance magic and wonderrdquomdashMichael Dirda The Washington Post Book World ldquoThis is lsquohistoryrsquo jubilantly mixed with postmodernist magic realismrdquomdashJoyce Carol Oates The New York Review of Books ldquoA 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 livesrdquomdashAlan Cheuse Chicago Tribune ldquoBrilliant Rushdiersquos sumptuous mixture of history and fable is magnificentrdquomdashUrsula K Le Guin The Guardian London.
