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Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights
By Rushdie, Salman
- ISBN
- 9780812998917 9780812998924
- Publisher
- Random
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Reviewed on August 1, 2015 | Fiction
What if today's violence and political instability could be blamed on jinnis? That is the premise of this latest novel from Rushdie (The Enchantress of Florence). Here, the War of the Two Worlds is a proxy war between dark and light jinnis and also a war between religious fundamentalism and reason, with roots going back to 12th-century Spain and the dusty corpses of two philosophers, Ghazali and Ibn Rushd. Ghazali, having rescued a powerful jinn named ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
