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Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights
by Salman Rushdie
If 2020 was a dumpster fire of ‘strangenesses’, from forest fires to storms to a global pandemic, 2021 has inured us to the idea that we’re living through the end times. I started this year with Saad Z Hossain’s brilliant ‘Gurkha and the Lord of Tuesday’ and as I wait for my copy of The Cyber Mage, I decided to scratch my itch for a djinn-tastic read with the inimitable Salman Rushdie. To describe the plot of this novel is a task I am unequal to. Suffice to say, it touches on many vintage Rushdie themes - censorship, displacement, generational trauma, and identity politics, while at the same time touching on current issues of climate change, terrorism, and the plague of misogyny. Modelled off 1001 Arabian Nights, Rushdie is our modern-day Scherezade, intricately weaving story after story into a grand narrative. Reading as a reader, I was enthralled, reading as a writer, the respect I have for this author has only increased tenfold.