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12 de jul. de 2016 · 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 ...
Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights by Salman Rushdie🌟🌟🌟🌟💀💔⚡📰Undeniably, this is a genius piece of magical realism for the literary readers out there, but for anyone trying Rushdie out for the first time, tough out those first fifty pages and get used to his writing style. This one is well worth it.
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8 de set. de 2015 · Two Years, Eight Months and Twenty Eight Nights is very much vintage Salman Rushdie, even down to the slightly puerile title, which, of course, equates to 1001 nights (the pedant within me insists on adding: assuming the year is not a leap year and the months are January to August), and including his signature invented names for characters of which he can then make dreadful puns ("Ronnimus-the ...
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.
8 de mar. de 2022 · Two years, eight months and twenty-eight nights, amounts to “One thousand and One Nights” the title of a collection of Middle Eastern folk tales compiled in Arabic during the Islamic Golden Age. Rushdie refers throughout the book to obscure but interesting literary, historical, cultural icons from the past.
14 de set. de 2015 · Watch on. Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights is a spellbinding blend of history and folklore with tremendous philosophical depth. The perfect entry point for new readers, this is a lush modern fairytale about monsters that are unleashed when reason recedes and religion reigns, and an enduring testament to the power of storytelling.
Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights often seems like a joyous return to what Rushdie does: imaginative, satirical, funny, strange and often controversial fiction.” —Eric Volmers, Calgary Herald “In Rushdie’s wickedly astute, comic, fantastic, and spirited update of One Thousand and One Nights, the action (flying carpets, gigantic attacking serpents) surges from drastic to ...
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