Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights
Book description
Blending history, mythology and a timeless love story, this is a satirical, magical masterpiece.
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…
Why read it?
1 author picked Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
This is a fun, playful novel that completely breaks all of the boundaries—time, gender, country, and fact—not surprising from Salman Rushdie! It is a dizzying ride, going from the Ferris wheel, to bumper cars, to the house of mirrors in a theme park.
Rather than relying so much on the strict frame narrative, Rushdie experiments with the idea of characters who are overtaken by “the jinn”—a wild, irrational impulse that perverts existing norms. It is Dunyazad, Shahrazad’s sister who marries Ibn Rushd, the great philosopher who was marginalized in 1195 by the Caliph. Rushdie tells the stories of…
From Gretchen's list on books influenced by Thousand and One Nights.
If you love Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights...
Sufferance
This is a novel about choices. How would you have chosen to act during the Second World War if your country had been invaded and occupied by a brutal enemy determined to isolate and murder a whole community?
That’s the situation facing an ordinary family man with two children, a…
Want books like Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights?
Our community of 12,000+ authors has personally recommended 100 books like Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights.
Browse books like Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights
Share your top 3 reads of 2024!
And get a beautiful page showing off your 3 favorite reads.
1,887
readers submitted
so far, will you?
📚 If you like Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights, you might also like...
The Ballad of Falling Rock
Truth told, folks still ask if Saul Crabtree sold his soul for the perfect voice. If he sold it to angels or devils. A Bristol newspaper once asked: “Are his love songs closer to heaven than dying?” Others wonder how he wrote a song so sad, everyone who heard it…
Radio Free Olympia
Embark on a riveting journey into Washington State’s untamed Olympic Peninsula, where the threads of folklore legends and historical icons are woven into a complex ecological tapestry.
Follow the enigmatic Petr as he fearlessly employs his pirate radio transmitter to broadcast the forgotten and untamed voices that echo through the…
