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Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights
by Salman Rushdie
It has been a long time since I read a Rushdie book and almost that long since I read a book written in such a fanciful style. I am out of practice, but I enjoyed this book nonetheless. It is fun to get carried along in the page long paragraphs, paragraph long sentences and long lists of people, places, events, things, emotions, etc. Rushdie's use of language is still beautiful, even if his frequent parenthetical detours have become even harder for me to follow through. This story is a great combination of his classic magical reality style, with Jinns (genies) running amok in the human world after centuries of being held apart. Rushdie explores what it means to be human by comparing and contrasting the ultimate inhumans, the jinn. There is love, hatred, loss, pain, discrimination, war... all of the best of Rushdie. Highly recommended if you like the author.