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Salman Rushdie's surreal new novel "Two Years, Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights"

1,878 views · Published 14 October 2015 · 30:02 · Indexed 28 October 2026

Channel: Q with Tom Power · 2015 · Entertainment

Award-winning author Salman Rushdie joins Shad to discuss Two Years, Eight Months, and Twenty-Eight Nights — his surreal new novel, narrated by our future descendents. Rushdie takes us into the world of his story, complete with moody genies, magic babies and monstrous storms. Although the writer says he wants to create "a world gone wrong", he hasn't given up hope for humanity. In this book he challenged himself to come up with a more hopeful future than it seems like we're headed for.

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Salman Rushdie's surreal new novel "Two Years, Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights"

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