Two years, eight months and twenty-eight days
14.99 €
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Two years, eight months and twenty-eight days
14.99 €
"Two Years, Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights" - a novel by Booker Prize winner Salman Rushdie, inspired by fairy tales and legends of the East. This is a parable, and satire, and family saga about the eternal struggle between good and evil, about guile, stupidity, betrayal, and, of course, about love.
A terrible hurricane strikes New York in the not-too-distant future, and some time later strange things begin to happen in the city. A migrant gardener from Bombay discovers levitation abilities. A comic book author finds a mole hole in his bedroom. A little girl recognizes corrupt officials by touching them. The miraculous abilities did not appear by chance: the ancestors of these people were powerful genies - beings who live in the higher world of dreams, separated from ours by a magical veil. Many centuries ago, the princess of the djinn, Dunya, fell in love with the old philosopher Ibn Rushd. Together they produced many children, unaware of their fantastic abilities - the only distinguishing feature being their lobe-less ears. The philosopher died, Dunya returned to her world, and their children spread across the Earth, waiting for their time. When an entire horde of djinn led by the Great Ifrit Zumurrud invaded the human world, Dunya and her descendants stood up to defend the humans. This war between the forces of light and darkness lasted a thousand and one nights - that is, two years, eight months and twenty-eight nights.
A terrible hurricane strikes New York in the not-too-distant future, and some time later strange things begin to happen in the city. A migrant gardener from Bombay discovers levitation abilities. A comic book author finds a mole hole in his bedroom. A little girl recognizes corrupt officials by touching them. The miraculous abilities did not appear by chance: the ancestors of these people were powerful genies - beings who live in the higher world of dreams, separated from ours by a magical veil. Many centuries ago, the princess of the djinn, Dunya, fell in love with the old philosopher Ibn Rushd. Together they produced many children, unaware of their fantastic abilities - the only distinguishing feature being their lobe-less ears. The philosopher died, Dunya returned to her world, and their children spread across the Earth, waiting for their time. When an entire horde of djinn led by the Great Ifrit Zumurrud invaded the human world, Dunya and her descendants stood up to defend the humans. This war between the forces of light and darkness lasted a thousand and one nights - that is, two years, eight months and twenty-eight nights.
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