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said that it is a "wonderful" novel and praised Rushdie: "the dark delights that spring from his imagination in this novel have the spellbinding energy that has marked the greatest storytellers since the days of Scheherazade." Also in
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praises the novel's "fierce colours, boisterousness, humour and tremendous pizzazz" and Rushdie's "fractal imagination".
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November/December 2015 issue, a magazine that aggregates critic reviews of books, the book received a
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The novel is set in New York City in the near future. It deals with
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Salman Rushdie
Magic realism
Jonathan Cape
ISBN
978-1910702031
Salman Rushdie
Jonathan Cape
jinns
Ifrits
Averroes
Al-Ghazali
Scheherazade
One Thousand and One Nights
Book Marks
Bookmarks
The Guardian
Erica Wagner
Ursula K. Le Guin
"Rushdie's Two Years, Eight Months & Twenty-Eight Nights"


"Two Years, Eight Months & Twenty-Eight Nights review – stories told against disaster"
"Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights"
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"Two Years Eight Months And Twenty-Eight Nights"
"Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights"
"Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights"
"Two Years, Eight Months and Twenty‑Eight Nights by Salman Rushdie review – a modern Arabian Nights"
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