Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights, Rushdie Salman

Автор: Rushdie Salman
Название: Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights
ISBN: 0812988205 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780812988208
Издательство: Random House (USA)
Цена: 10420 T
Описание: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Washington Post - Los Angeles Times - San Francisco Chronicle - Harper's Bazaar - St. Louis Post-Dispatch - The Guardian - The Kansas City Star - National Post - BookPage - Kirkus Reviews

From Salman Rushdie, one of the great writers of our time, comes a spellbinding work of fiction that blends history, mythology, and a timeless love story. A lush, richly layered novel in which our world has been plunged into an age of unreason, Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights is a breathtaking achievement and an enduring testament to the power of storytelling.

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 entity that resembles his own sub-Stan Lee creation. Abandoned at the mayor's office, a baby identifies corruption with her mere presence, marking the guilty with blemishes and boils. A seductive gold digger is soon tapped to combat forces beyond imagining.

Unbeknownst to them, they are all descended from the whimsical, capricious, wanton creatures known as the jinn, who live in a world separated from ours by a veil. Centuries ago, Dunia, a princess of the jinn, fell in love with a mortal man of reason. Together they produced an astonishing number of children, unaware of their fantastical powers, who spread across generations in the human world.

Once the line between worlds is breached on a grand scale, Dunia's children and others will play a role in an epic war between light and dark spanning a thousand and one nights--or two years, eight months, and twenty-eight nights. It is a time of enormous upheaval, in which beliefs are challenged, words act like poison, silence is a disease, and a noise may contain a hidden curse.

Inspired by the traditional "wonder tales" of the East, Salman Rushdie's novel is a masterpiece about the age-old conflicts that remain in today's world. Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights is satirical and bawdy, full of cunning and folly, rivalries and betrayals, kismet and karma, rapture and redemption.

Praise for Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights

"Rushdie is our Scheherazade. . . . This book is a fantasy, a fairytale--and a brilliant reflection of and serious meditation on the choices and agonies of our life in this world."--Ursula K. Le Guin, The Guardian

"One of the major literary voices of our time . . . In reading this new book, one cannot escape the feeling that Rushdie's] years of writing and success have perhaps been preparation for this moment, for the creation of this tremendously inventive and timely novel."--San Francisco Chronicle

"A wicked bit of satire . . . Rushdie] riffs and expands on the tales of Scheherazade, another storyteller whose spinning of yarns was a matter of life and death."--USA Today

"A swirling tale of genies and geniuses that] translates the bloody upheavals of our last few decades into the comic-book antics of warring jinn wielding bolts of fire, mystical transmutations and rhyming battle spells."--The Washington Post

"Great fun . . . The novel shines brightest in the panache of its unfolding, the electric grace and nimble eloquence and extraordinary range and layering of his voice."--The Boston Globe

From the Hardcover edition.

Автор: Rushdie Salman
Название: The Eleventh Hour
ISBN: 1787336042 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781787336049
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Автор: Rushdie Salman
Название: The Moor`s Last Sigh
ISBN: 152997237X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781529972375
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Автор: Rushdie Salman
Название: The Eleventh Hour: A Quintet of Stories
ISBN: ISBN-13(EAN): 9798217154197
Издательство: Неизвестно
Цена: 26670.00 T
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Автор: Rushdie Salman
Название: Eleventh Hour
ISBN: 1787336050 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781787336056
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Описание: Dazzling new short stories from Salman Rushdie that transport us around the world from Bombay neighbourhoods to elite English universities, in his first new fiction since Victory City

Автор: Rushdie Salman
Название: Knife
ISBN: 0593730259 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780593730256
Издательство: Неизвестно
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Автор: Rushdie Salman
Название: East. West
ISBN: 0099533014 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780099533016
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Описание: This dazzling collection of short stories explores the allure and confusion of what happens when East meets West. With one foot in the East and one foot in the West, this collection reveals the oceanic distances and the unexpected intimacies between the two.

Автор: Rushdie Salman
Название: The Golden House
ISBN: 1784707090 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781784707095
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Описание: **New York Times bestseller**A Guardian / Observer Book of the YearWhen powerful real-estate tycoon Nero Golden immigrates to the States under mysterious circumstances, he and his three adult children assume new identities, taking `Roman` names, and move into a grand mansion in downtown Manhattan.

Автор: Rushdie Salman
Название: Knife
ISBN: 1787334805 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781787334809
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Автор: Rushdie Salman
Название: Mirrorwork: 50 Years of Indian Writing, 1947-1997
ISBN: 0805057099 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780805057096
Издательство: Macmillan USA/Holtzbrink
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Автор: Rushdie Salman
Название: Satanic verses
ISBN: 0963270702 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780963270702
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Описание: Just before dawn one winter`s morning, a hijacked aeroplane blows apart high above the English Channel and two figures tumble, clutched in an embrace, towards the sea: Gibreel Farishta, India`s legendary movie star, and Saladin Chamcha, the man of a thousand voices.

Автор: Rushdie Salman
Название: Enchantress of florence
ISBN: 0099421925 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780099421924
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Описание: When a young European traveller arrives at Sikri, the court of Mughal Emperor Akbar, the tale he spins brings the whole imperial capital to the brink of obsession. He calls himself `Mogor dell`Amore`, the Mughal of Love, and claims to be the son of a lost princess, whose name and has been erased from the country`s history: Qara Koz.

Автор: Rushdie Salman
Название: Knife
ISBN: 0593730240 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780593730249
Издательство: Random House (USA)
Цена: 10300.00 T
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Автор: Rushdie Salman
Название: Midnight`s children VC
ISBN: 0099511894 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780099511892
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Описание: WITH A NEW 40TH ANNIVERSARY INTRODUCTION BY THE AUTHOR Born at the stroke of midnight at the exact moment of India`s independence, Saleem Sinai is a special child.

Автор: Rushdie Salman
Название: Knife
ISBN: 1787334791 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781787334793
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Автор: Rushdie Salman
Название: Fury
ISBN: 0099421860 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780099421863
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Цена: 6150.00 T
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Описание: An astounding, intense novel by the Booker-prize winning author of Midnight`s Children. In the summer of 2000 New York is a city living at breakneck speed in an age of unprecedented decadence. And so he steps out of his life once again and begins a new one in New York. But New York is a city boiling with fury.