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: Victory City
ISBN: 1529920868 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781529920864
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Автор: Rushdie Salman
Название: Midnight`s Children
ISBN: 1784878650 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781784878658
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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: Moor`s Last Sigh. The
ISBN: 0679744665 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780679744665
Издательство: Random House (USA)
Цена: 9810.00 T
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Описание: Time Magazine's Best Book of the Year

Booker Prize-winning author Salman Rushdie combines a ferociously witty family saga with a surreally imagined and sometimes blasphemous chronicle of modern India and flavors the mixture with peppery soliloquies on art, ethnicity, religious fanaticism, and the terrifying power of love. Moraes "Moor" Zogoiby, the last surviving scion of a dynasty of Cochinese spice merchants and crime lords, is also a compulsive storyteller and an exile. As he travels a route that takes him from India to Spain, he leaves behind a tale of mad passions and volcanic family hatreds, of titanic matriarchs and their mesmerized offspring, of premature deaths and curses that strike beyond the grave.

Автор: Rushdie Salman
Название: East. West
ISBN: 0679757899 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780679757894
Издательство: Random House (USA)
Цена: 10390.00 T
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Описание: A collection of nine short stories in which Rushdie explores the relationship, the shared history, and the misunderstandings that both bind and separate East and West. From the winner of the Booker Prize for "Midnight's Children", and the Booker of Bookers in 1993.

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: East
ISBN: 0099543818 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780099543817
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
Цена: 4390.00 T
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Описание: A collection of nine short stories in which Rushdie explores the relationship, the shared history, and the misunderstandings that both bind and separate East and West. From the winner of the Booker Prize for "Midnight's Children", and the Booker of Bookers in 1993.

Автор: Rushdie Salman
Название: Moor`s Last Sigh
ISBN: 0099700611 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780099700616
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
Цена: 5270.00 T
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Автор: Rushdie Salman
Название: Vintage Book Of Indian Writing 1947 - 1997
ISBN: 0099731010 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780099731016
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Автор: Rushdie Salman
Название: Ground Beneath Her Feet
ISBN: 009928295X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780099282952
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
Цена: 5270.00 T
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Описание: From the author of THE SATANIC VERSES, EAST, WEST and THE MOORS LAST SIGH, the story of a famous singer who is killed in an earthquake, and that of her lover who finds, loses, seeks and finds her, over and over, throughout his own extraordinary life in music.

Автор: Rushdie Salman
Название: Satanic Verses, The
ISBN: 0312270828 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780312270827
Издательство: Holtzbrink(MPS)/MPS
Цена: 9810.00 T
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Описание: Gibreel Farishta, India's legendary movie star, and Saladin Chamcha, the man of a thousand voices, fall earthward from a bombed jet toward the sea, singing rival verses in an eternal wrestling match between good and evil.

Автор: Rushdie Salman
Название: Fury
ISBN: 0375759603 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780375759604
Издательство: Random House (USA)
Цена: 4900.00 T
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Автор: Rushdie Salman
Название: Midnight`s children
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: 0593730240 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780593730249
Издательство: Random House (USA)
Цена: 14710.00 T
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Автор: Rushdie Salman
Название: Knife
ISBN: 1787334791 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781787334793
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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