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Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights
Cover of first edition
Author	Salman Rushdie
Language	English
Genre	Magic realism^[1]
Publisher	Jonathan Cape
Publication date	10 September 2015
Publication place	United Kingdom
Media type	Print (hardback)
Pages	286 pp. (hardback)
ISBN	978-1910702031 (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."^[2] 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

^ Scholes, Lucy (8 September 2015). "Rushdie's Two Years, Eight Months & Twenty-Eight Nights". BBC. Retrieved 3 February 2021.
^ ^a ^b Wagner, Erica (13 September 2015). "Two Years, Eight Months & Twenty-Eight Nights review – stories told against disaster". The Observer.
^ "Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights". Book Marks. Archived from the original on 19 August 2016. Retrieved 12 July 2024.
^ "Two Years Eight Months And Twenty-Eight Nights". Book Marks. Retrieved 12 July 2024.
^ "Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights". Bookmarks. Retrieved 14 January 2023.
^ "Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights". Bibliosurf (in French). 4 October 2023. Retrieved 4 October 2023.
^ Guin, Ursula K. Le (4 September 2015). "Two Years, Eight Months and Twenty‑Eight Nights by Salman Rushdie review – a modern Arabian Nights". The Guardian.

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External links

Publishers Weekly Review

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One Thousand and One Nights

Translations

Les mille et une nuits (1704–1717)
The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night (1885–1888)
Le livre des mille nuits et une nuit (1926–1932)

Stories

Characters

Fictional	Aladdin Ali Baba Badroulbadour Old Man of the Sea Scheherazade Sinbad the Sailor
Legendary	Hatim al-Tai Khidr Ma'n ibn Za'ida al-Shaybani Sayf ibn Dhi Yazan Shaddad ibn 'Ad Solomon
Historical	Abu Nuwas Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan Al-Hajjaj ibn Yusuf Al-Ma'mun Baibars Harun al-Rashid Ibrahim al-Mawsili Ishaq al-Mawsili Ja'far ibn Yahya Khosrow II Shirin Zubaidah bint Ja'far

Films

The Thief of Bagdad (1924)
The Adventures of Prince Achmed (1926)
The Thief of Bagdad (1940)
Arabian Nights (1942)
Baghdad Ka Chor (1946)
La Rosa di Bagdad (1949)
The Thief of Bagdad (1952)
Baghdad Thirudan (1960)
The Thief of Baghdad (1961)
Baghdad Gaja Donga (1968)
A Thousand and One Nights (1969)
Arabian Nights (1974)
The Thief of Baghdad (1978)
Ajooba (1991)
Arabian Nights (2015)

Templates

Television

Alif Laila (1993–1997)
Scooby-Doo! in Arabian Nights (1994)
Arabian Nights (2000)
Thief of Baghdad (2000–2001)
1001 Nights (2011)

Music

Operas	Le calife de Bagdad (1800) Abu Hassan (1811) Ali Baba (Cherubini) (1833) Der Barbier von Bagdad (1858) La statue (1861) Ali-Baba (Lecocq) (1887) Mârouf, savetier du Caire (1914)
Other	Scheherazade Op. 35 (1888) Aladdin (1918–1919)

Literature

"Recollections of the Arabian Nights" (1830)
"The Thousand-and-Second Tale of Scheherazade" (1845)
New Arabian Nights (1882)
Slaves of Sleep (1939)
The Eighth Voyage of Sindbad (1964)
Dunyazadiad (1972)
Arabian Nights and Days (1979)
The Last Voyage of Somebody the Sailor (1991)
Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights (2015)

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