Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights, Rushdie Salman

Автор: Rushdie Salman
Название: Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights
ISBN: 0812988205 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780812988208
Издательство: Random House (USA)
Цена: 2023.00 р.
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Описание: 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

From the Hardcover edition.

Автор: Rushdie Salman
Название: Eleventh hour
ISBN: ISBN-13(EAN): 9798217155101
Издательство: Random House (USA)
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Автор: Rushdie Salman
Название: Enchantress of florence
ISBN: 0099421925 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780099421924
Издательство: Random House
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Описание: When a young European traveller arrives at Sikri, the court of Mughal Emperor Akbar, the tale he spins brings the whole imperial capital to the brink of obsession. He calls himself `Mogor dell`Amore`, the Mughal of Love, and claims to be the son of a lost princess, whose name and has been erased from the country`s history: Qara Koz.

Автор: Rushdie Salman
Название: Victory City
ISBN: 1529920868 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781529920864
Издательство: Random House
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Автор: Rushdie Salman
Название: The Moor`s Last Sigh
ISBN: 152997237X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781529972375
Издательство: Random House
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Автор: Rushdie Salman
Название: Quichotte
ISBN: 1529111986 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781529111989
Издательство: Random House
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Описание: **SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE****SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER**Booker Prize-winning, internationally bestselling author Salman Rushdie has created a dazzling Don Quixote for the modern age. Inspired by the Cervantes classic, Sam DuChamp, mediocre writer of spy thrillers, creates Quichotte, a courtly, addled salesman obsessed with television, who falls in impossible love with the TV star Salman R. Together with his (imaginary) son Sancho, Quichotte sets off on a picaresque quest across America to prove worthy of her hand, gallantly braving the tragicomic perils of an age where 'Anything-Can-Happen'.

Meanwhile his creator, in a midlife crisis, has equally urgent challenges of his own. Just as Cervantes wrote Don Quixote to satirise the culture of his time, Rushdie takes the reader on a wild ride through a country on the verge of moral and spiritual collapse, with the kind of storytelling magic that is the hallmark of his work. The fully realised lives of DuChamp and Quichotte intertwine in a profoundly human quest for love and a wickedly entertaining portrait of an age in which fact is so often indiscernible from fiction.

Автор: Rushdie Salman
Название: Luka and the Fire of Life
ISBN: 0099421895 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780099421894
Издательство: Random House
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Цена: от 1001.00 р.
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Описание: IMAGINEyou are Luka, a twelve-year-old boy who has to save the life of the storyteller father you adore. IMAGINEyou have two loyal companions by your side: a bear called Dog who can sing and a dog called Bear who can dance.

Автор: Rushdie Salman
Название: Shalimar the clown
ISBN: 0099421887 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780099421887
Издательство: Random House
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Описание: Despite the political overtones, it soon emerges that this is a murder with a much darker heart to it. The killing has its roots halfway across the globe, back in Kashmir, a ruined paradise not so much lost as shattered.

Автор: Rushdie Salman
Название: Knife
ISBN: 1787334791 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781787334793
Издательство: Random House
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Автор: Rushdie Salman
Название: Haroun and the Sea of Stories
ISBN: 0143124773 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780143124771
Издательство: Random House (USA)
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Цена: 2575.00 р.
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Автор: Rushdie Salman
Название: Haroun and Luka
ISBN: 0099583046 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780099583042
Издательство: Random House
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Цена: от 1401.00 р.
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Описание: Haroun: What`s the use of stories that aren`t even true? I asked that question and the Unthinkable Thing happened: my father can`t tell stories anymore. That means no more laughter in the city of Alifbay and now the place stinks of sadness. So it`s up to me to put things right.

Автор: Rushdie Salman
Название: Midnight`s children VC
ISBN: 0099511894 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780099511892
Издательство: Random House
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Описание: WITH A NEW 40TH ANNIVERSARY INTRODUCTION BY THE AUTHOR Born at the stroke of midnight at the exact moment of India`s independence, Saleem Sinai is a special child.

Автор: Rushdie Salman
Название: Fury
ISBN: 0099421860 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780099421863
Издательство: Random House
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Описание: An astounding, intense novel by the Booker-prize winning author of Midnight`s Children. In the summer of 2000 New York is a city living at breakneck speed in an age of unprecedented decadence. And so he steps out of his life once again and begins a new one in New York. But New York is a city boiling with fury.

Автор: Rushdie Salman
Название: East. West
ISBN: 0099533014 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780099533016
Издательство: Random House
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Описание: This dazzling collection of short stories explores the allure and confusion of what happens when East meets West. With one foot in the East and one foot in the West, this collection reveals the oceanic distances and the unexpected intimacies between the two.