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. 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. 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. 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.
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 title is a reference to the magical stretch of time that unites the book's three periods, which are actually millennia apart.
In the first period the 12th century , jinn princess Dunia falls in love with real-life philosopher and advocate of reason and science Averroes aka Ibn Rushd and bears multiple children. In the second period current day , Dunia's descendants, a group including a gardener and a young graphic novelist, are unaware of their powerful lineage despite the fact that they inherited Dunia's trademark earlobelessness.
Then they witness a great storm devastating New York; worse, a slit between the jinn world and the human world opens and the dark jinn slip through. 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. 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. 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.
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. 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. The novel shines brightest in the panache of its unfolding, the electric grace and nimble eloquence and extraordinary range and layering of his Salman Rushdie - Author Robert G.
Slade - Author. Languages English. Why is availability limited? Sign in Cancel. A horde of evil jinns, led by Zumurrud, a Grand Ifrit, escapes through the rift and into the human world, wreaking havoc on humanity.
In response, the Lightning Princess Dunia, a virtuous jinn leader, assembles her jinns to fight the Grand Ifrits and save humanity. This traditional story of good and evil coincides with a debate on the existence and intent of God between two famous philosophers: the religious Persian Muslim Al-Ghazali, and the more rationalist and Aristotelian Spanish Muslim thinker, Ibn Rushd. The beginning of the novel explains how the War of the Worlds begins. The Lightning Princess, Dunia, keenly interested in human life, opens a passage into their world after falling in love with the Spanish philosopher Ibn Rushd.
They give birth to many children called the Duniazat, whose signature mark is their lack of earlobes. Dunia plans for them to spread throughout the world, and Ibn Rushd hopes for them to be spiritual leaders, philosophers, and intellectuals.
However, she never reveals that she is the Lightning Princess. In the wake of the storm unleashed by Dunia, the story turns to Mr. Geronimo, a gardener and handyman who inexplicably starts to levitate.
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