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Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights
by Salman Rushdie
Not nearly as good as Midnight's Children, but a good intro to this style, and a more manageable read. Salman Rushdie's writing is a sweet combination of refreshing, mesmerizing, and comforting, and wondrous. This book in particular was refreshing because I read it after some other mediocre fiction...anyway I'd recommend it for the writing over the plot. It's a nice exploration of the jinn and how they interact with the human world, but it all comes to an end pretty quickly after being somewhat drawn out, which seems typical. The writing - the ideas and descriptions and magic - are what make his books worth reading. The debate between ibn Rushd and Ghazali is intriguing, as are the recurring themes of homeland, nostalgia, narratives, identity, and the passage of time.