Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights

[The book] moves between gentle irony and moments of profound emotion. It is a riotous, exuberant and sometimes maddening celebration of the power of storytelling, and of the importance of education and culture. – Christina Patterson * Sunday Times *His usual seamless blend of the realistic and fantastic. * Travel Guide *Two Years, Eight Months & Twenty-Eight Nights blends Arabian myth, history and sci-fi into a whirlwind fable. * Good Housekeeping *Rollicking, lyrical and very enjoyable tale. – Darragh McManus * Irish Independent *A powerful indictment of religious violence. – Francesca Wade * Literary Review *Great fun. – Fiona Maddocks * Guardian *Sensational… it is unlike not only anything you may have read by Rushdie but by anyone anywhere. – Sathnam Sanghera * The Times *The dark delights that spring from his imagination in this novel have a spellbinding energy that has marked the greatest storytellers since the days for Scheherazade. – Erica Wagner * Observer *Rushdie writes with a happy exuberance. – Allan Massie * Scotman *Vividly described and rich in mayhem. – Eileen Battersby * Irish Times *

Salman Rushdie is one of the world’s most acclaimed, award-winning contemporary authors. Translated into over forty languages, his sixteen works of fiction include Midnight’s Children - for which he won the Booker Prize in 1981, the Booker of Bookers on the 25th anniversary of the prize and Best of the Booker on the 40th anniversary - Shame, The Satanic Verses, Quichotte and Victory City. His latest book, Knife- Meditations After an Attempted Murder was a number one Sunday Times bestseller. A former president of PEN American Center, Rushdie was knighted in 2007 for services to literature and was made a Companion of Honour in the Queen’s last Birthday Honours list in 2022.

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