{"product_id":"9780812998924","title":"Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights","description":"From 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.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e In 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.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Once 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, where beliefs are challenged, words act like poison, silence is a disease, and a noise may contain a hidden curse.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Inspired 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eFrom the Hardcover edition.\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"Random House Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47110244008176,"sku":"9780812998924","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780812998924_p0.jpg?v=1763745626","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780812998924","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}