TY - BOOK AU - Rushdie,Salman TI - Two years eight months and twenty-eight nights: a novel SN - 9780812998917 (cloth : acidfree paper) AV - PR6068.U757 T96 2015 U1 - 823/.914 23 PY - 2015///] CY - New York PB - Random House KW - Jinn KW - Fiction KW - Magic KW - FICTION / Literary KW - bisacsh KW - FICTION / Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology KW - Fantasy fiction KW - gsafd KW - Love stories N2 - "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. A baby was born with the ability to see corruption in the faces of others. The ghosts of two philosophers, long dead, began arguing once more. And a battle for the kingdom of Fairyland was waged throughout our world for 1,001 nights -- or, to be more precise, for two years, eight months, and twenty-eight nights. Two Years, Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights is a masterful, playfully enchanting meditation on the power of love and the importance of rationality, replete with flying carpets and dynastic intrigue"-- ER -