Two years, eight months and twenty-eight nights

No cover — Salman Rushdie: Two years, eight months and twenty-eight nights (2015, Knopf Canada)

290 Seiten

English language

Am 2015 von Knopf Canada veröffentlicht.

ISBN:: 978-0-345-81022-9
OCLC Nummer:: 907096245

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From Salman Rushdie, one of the great writers of our time, comes a spellbinding novel that blends history and folklore with tremendous philosophical depth. Once upon a time, in a world just like ours, there came "the time of the strangenesses." Reason receded and the loudest, most illiberal voices reigned. A simple gardener began to levitate, and a powerful djinn - also known as the Princess of Fairyland - raised an army composed entirely of her semi-magical great-great-great-grandchildren. And a battle for the kingdom of Fairyland was waged throughout our world for 1,001 nights.

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2 stars

Mhm. Rushdie has written three books that I like very much, and some I can't get warm with. This is one of the latter group. Too abstract for me (late in the book, the jinn are even called abstractions), I couldn't get interested in most characters.
The plot reminded me of DC Comics' 1990s crossover event "Bloodlines" (Rushie himself uses a lot of explicit comic book associations in this book, so this idea may be forgiven), which I didn't care for: Gruesome aliens attacking Earth on a grand scale, with new superheroes born through alien meddling. Plucky individuals and secret plans that I couldn't follow.

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