Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights explained

Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights
Author:Salman Rushdie
Country:United Kingdom
Language:English
Genre:Magic realism[1]
Publisher:Jonathan Cape
Release Date:10 September 2015
Media Type:Print (hardback)
Pages:286 pp. (hardback)
Isbn:978-1910702031
Isbn Note:(hardback)

Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights is a fantasy novel by British Indian author Salman Rushdie published by Jonathan Cape in 2015.

Plot

The novel is set in New York City in the near future. It deals with jinns, and recounts the story of a jinnia princess and her offspring 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.

Title

The title is a reference to the 1,001 nights Scheherazade spent telling stories in the Middle-Eastern story of One Thousand and One Nights.[2]

Critical reception

According to Book Marks, the book received "mixed" reviews (or a "B-" [3]) based on ten critic reviews with two being "rave" and two being "positive" and one being "mixed" and five being "pan".[4] On Bookmarks November/December 2015 issue, a magazine that aggregates critic reviews of books, the book received a (3.0 out of 5) based on critic reviews with a critical summary saying, "Underdeveloped characters, a complicated structure characterized by abrupt shifts in perspective, and repetition bothered some critics; a few also questioned his playful treatment of religious fanaticism and his choice to use a collective, futuristic "we" as a narrator".[5] [6]

In a review of the book in The Guardian, Erica Wagner said that it is a "wonderful" novel and praised Rushdie: "the dark delights that spring from his imagination in this novel have the spellbinding energy that has marked the greatest storytellers since the days of Scheherazade." Also in The Guardian, Ursula K. Le Guin praises the novel's "fierce colours, [...] boisterousness, humour and tremendous pizzazz" and Rushdie's "fractal imagination".[7]

References

  1. http://www.thestatesman.com/news/8th-day/end-of-war-conflict-and-tension-but-at-the-cost-of-dreams/89690.html#EyDGcCEU7d8zGP71.99

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Rushdie's Two Years, Eight Months & Twenty-Eight Nights . Scholes . Lucy . 8 September 2015 . BBC . 3 February 2021.
  2. News: Two Years, Eight Months & Twenty-Eight Nights review – stories told against disaster. The Observer . 13 September 2015 . Wagner . Erica .
  3. Web site: Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights. 12 July 2024. Book Marks. https://web.archive.org/web/20160819171724/http://lithub.com:80/bookmarks/bookmark/two-years-eight-months-and-twenty-eight-nights. 19 Aug 2016.
  4. Web site: Two Years Eight Months And Twenty-Eight Nights. 12 July 2024 . Book Marks.
  5. Web site: Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights. 14 January 2023 . Bookmarks.
  6. Web site: 2023-10-04 . Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights. 2023-10-04 . Bibliosurf . fr.
  7. News: Two Years, Eight Months and Twenty‑Eight Nights by Salman Rushdie review – a modern Arabian Nights. The Guardian . 4 September 2015 . Guin . Ursula K. Le .

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