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
