Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights
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| Author | Salman Rushdie |
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| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Novel |
| Publisher | Random House |
Publication date | September 8, 2015 |
| Media type | Print (hardback) |
| Pages | 304 pp. (hardback) |
| ISBN | 9780812998917 (hardback) |
| Preceded by | The Enchantress of Florence |
Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights is a 2015 novel by Salman Rushdie.
The novel is set in New York in the near future. It deals with jinns, and recounts the story of a jinnia princess and her offsprings during the "strangenesses." After a great storm, slits between the world of jinns and the world of men are opened and strange phenomena emerge as dark jinnis invade the Earth. The jinnia princess and her children thus need to fight to defend the Earth and the humans from them, the Grand Ifrits. All the while, the Great Philosopher Averroes (Ibn Rushd) and the famous theologian Al-Ghazali pursue a philosophical debate about reason and God.
The title is a reference to the 1,001 nights Scheherazade spent telling stories in the Arabian Nights.[1]
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