Two years, eight months and twenty-eight nights

• Verfasst von: Rushdie, Salman
• Titel: Two years, eight months and twenty-eight nights
• Titelzusatz: a novel
• Verf.angabe: Salman Rushdie
• Verlagsort: New York, NY
• Verlag: Random House
• E-Jahr: 2015
• Jahr: c 2015
• Umfang: 290 S.
• Illustrationen: Ill.
• Format: 25 cm
• Fussnoten: Hier auch später erschienene, unveränderte Nachdrucke
• ISBN: 978-0-8129-9891-7
• Sprache: eng
• RVK-Notation: HN 7648
• K10plus-PPN: 819485071

Abstract

"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"--

Abstract

"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"--