alcademics 's review for:

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

3.0

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The war of the human world with genies (jinn) but largely a metaphor for society being controlled by fear and religion vs rational thought. Unusual for Rushdie, the pacing feels off on this one: 3/4 of the book is build-up then there's so much action that it goes by too quickly. As usual some great material/interesting way of putting things but overall I'll forget about this book in a week.