Download or read book Two Years Eight Months and Twenty Eight Nights written by Salman Rushdie and published by Random House. This book was released on 2015-09-08 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Washington Post • Los Angeles Times • San Francisco Chronicle • Harper’s Bazaar • St. Louis Post-Dispatch • The Guardian • The Kansas City Star • National Post • BookPage • Kirkus Reviews 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, Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights is a breathtaking achievement and an enduring testament to the power of storytelling. 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. 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. 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, in which beliefs are challenged, words act like poison, silence is a disease, and a noise may contain a hidden curse. 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. 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. Praise for Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights “Rushdie is our Scheherazade. . . . 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.”—Ursula K. Le Guin, The Guardian “One of the major literary voices of our time . . . In reading this new book, one cannot escape the feeling that [Rushdie’s] years of writing and success have perhaps been preparation for this moment, for the creation of this tremendously inventive and timely novel.”—San Francisco Chronicle “A wicked bit of satire . . . [Rushdie] riffs and expands on the tales of Scheherazade, another storyteller whose spinning of yarns was a matter of life and death.”—USA Today “A swirling tale of genies and geniuses [that] translates the bloody upheavals of our last few decades into the comic-book antics of warring jinn wielding bolts of fire, mystical transmutations and rhyming battle spells.”—The Washington Post “Great fun . . . 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 Boston Globe
Download or read book Two Years written by Stuart J. Cole and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2020-11-29 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I was born in London in 1962. I spent the first 12 years of my life in a children’s home, struggling not only with the fact that my parents had abandonned me, but also trying to cope with being?of Caribbean decent. I was sent to Jamaica at the age of twelve to be with my Grandmother, Aunty, Brother and Sister all of whom I was to meet for the first time. In Jamaica I learnt to adapt to a different way of life and culture; I saw my father for the first time and lost a good friend in the Island’s capitol, Kingston,?during the violent civil unrest of the late seventies and early eighties. I returned to England in 1982 and after living a play boy type of life for a few years, I?decided to seek out my mother and find out what went wrong. The years which followed took me on a path towards self desruction, trying to hang on to someone I knew I could be, but just did not know how. Alcohol and drugs had created a different person within me and we would have continuous fights for the right to be me. It ended up in February 2006?with us both in?prison on the island of St Lucia, a hard core prison. I won. I started to write out of sheer boredom; what followed was a self therapeutic journey to the land of a reality which I had left behind a long time ago.
Download or read book Two Years Is a Lifetime written by Paul E. Mefferd and published by Xulon Press. This book was released on 2003-06 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book TWO YEARS BEFORE THE MAST A PERSONAL NARRATIVE written by RICHARD HENRY. DANA and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Humanitarian Problems in South Vietnam and Cambodia Two Years After the Cease fire written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee to Investigate Problems Connected with Refugees and Escapees and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Kwethluk Two Years on the Bad River written by John Fairweather and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2019-09-15 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kwethluk: six hundred miles from the nearest highway, fifty-below winters, generator electricity, no running water (except in the school and teacher housing), no doctors, no dentists, no veterinarians, no restaurants, no malls nor movie theaters. Here, we�d begin our teaching assignments for the Bureau of Indian Affairs, white people�kass�aqs�working for those who in another time and place had helped to kill Crazy Horse and Geronimo for their lands. But this time, to paraphrase the BIA�s official mission, we�d come with a cavalry of books to save the natives from themselves.
Download or read book Life in Mexico During a Residence of Two Years in that Country written by Madame Calderón de la Barca (Frances Erskine Inglis) and published by . This book was released on 1843 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Lipouts the best I could do from the first two years written by Nathan Crace and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-01-06 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Award-winning golf course architect Nathan Crace spent more than ten years writing about his humorous take on the game of golf and the people who play it in his reoccurring column "Lipouts" that appeared in regional and national golf publications. Now he's gone back and hand-picked his favorite columns from the first two years of writing and followed each one up with his current take on how things have changed...or not. The result is a collection of humor, reflection, and true stories that will make you sit up and think twice about the game millions play each day. "Lipouts...the best I could do from the first two years" is a light hearted look back by a man who challenges us all not to take the game (or life) too seriously.
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Download or read book Six Years in the Monasteries of Italy and Two Years in the Islands of the Mediterranean and in Asia Minor written by S. I. Mahoney and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-11-13 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1836.
Download or read book How I Spent My Two Years Leave Or My Impressions of the Mother Country the Continent of Europe United States of America and Canada written by R. B. Cumberland and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-03-08 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.
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