Salman Rushdie

Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights

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Produktbeschreibung

Blending history, mythology and a timeless love story, this is a satirical, magical masterpiece from one of the greatest living writers. In the near future, after a storm strikes New York City, the strangenesses begin.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Random House UK / Vintage, London
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 718293
• Seitenzahl: 286
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Mai 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 195mm x 128mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 213g
• ISBN-13: 9781784701857
• ISBN-10: 1784701858
• Artikelnr.: 44774817

Autorenporträt

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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Rezensionen

[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