Review by karenmichele - Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights

karenmichele 's review for:

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

4.0

I loved the language play in this book. Starting with the name of the philosopher, Ibn Rushd, and continuing with the wonderfully nicknamed “Mac” Aroni, I was amazed at the plays on words throughout. Rushdie also had fun putting words and analogies together. I wish I’d kept track of more of my favorite phrases like “the roofs of houses flew through the night sky like disoriented bats”(p19) , but they were sprinkled throughout the book. You really had to pay attention or references like this Proust title in ordinary descriptions could easily slip by: “Everywhere they went men stood in the shadow of young girls in flower. I’m sure there were as many twists of the language that I missed as there were those I caught, but it was Rushdie’s writing itself that pleased me the most in this book. The plot was less engaging, so I ended up giving the book 4 stars, but it is definitely recommended!