{"product_id":"2940169468076","title":"Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom 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, \u003ci\u003eTwo Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights\u003c\/i\u003e is a breathtaking achievement and an enduring testament to the power of storytelling.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUnbeknownst 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOnce 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eInspired 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. \u003ci\u003eTwo Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights\u003c\/i\u003e is satirical and bawdy, full of cunning and folly, rivalries and betrayals, kismet and karma, rapture and redemption.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47104520880368,"sku":"2940169468076","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940169468076_p0.jpg?v=1763683581","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940169468076","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}