Two Years, Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights

Resumen del libro

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"

Biografía del autor

x{0026}lt;P x{0026}lt;B Salman Rushdie x{0026}lt;/B (Bombay, 1947), es autor de numerosos libros, de entre los que destacan x{0026}lt;I Hijos de la medianoche x{0026}lt;/I -que ganó el premio Booker en 1981, el Booker de los Booker en 1993 y, en 2008, el Mejor de los Booker -, x{0026}lt;I Los versos satánicosx{0026}lt;/I , x{0026}lt;I El último suspiro del morox{0026}lt;/I , x{0026}lt;I Joseph Anton x{0026}lt;/I y x{0026}lt;I Quijotex{0026}lt;/I . Ha sido galardonado con el Grinzane Cavour y el Premio Nacional de las Artes de Estados Unidos, además de otros muchos premios. En 2007, Salman Rushdie fue nombrado Caballero del Imperio Británico por su contribución a la literatura. Miembro de la Royal Society of Literature y Commandeur dans lx{0026} x02019;Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, y abanderado en la lucha por la libertad de expresión, en 2022 sobrevivió a un ataque sufrido mientras dictaba una conferencia en el estado de Nueva York.x{0026}lt;/P