Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights

[The book] moves between gentle irony and moments of profound emotion. It is a riotous, exuberant and sometimes maddening celebration of the power of storytelling, and of the importance of education and culture.

Christina Patterson, Sunday Times

His usual seamless blend of the realistic and fantastic.

Travel Guide

Two Years, Eight Months & Twenty-Eight Nights blends Arabian myth, history and sci-fi into a whirlwind fable.

Good Housekeeping

I like to think how many readers are going to admire the courage of this book, revel in its fierce colours, its boisterousness, humour and tremendous pizzazz, and take delight in its generosity of spirit.

Ursula K Le Guin, Guardian

Rollicking, lyrical and very enjoyable tale.

Darragh McManus, Irish Independent

Great fun.

Fiona Maddocks, Guardian

A powerful indictment of religious violence.

Francesca Wade, Literary Review

Rushdie writes with a happy exuberance.

Allan Massie, Scotman

Sensational… it is unlike not only anything you may have read by Rushdie but by anyone anywhere.

Sathnam Sanghera, The Times

The dark delights that spring from his imagination in this novel have a spellbinding energy that has marked the greatest storytellers since the days for Scheherazade.

Erica Wagner, Observer

Fans should be satisfied and newcomers bemused, then enchanted, by the wordsmithery on show.

Manchester Evening News

Two Years, Eight Months And Twenty-Eight Nights blends Arabian myth, history and sci-fi into a whirlwind of a fable.

Joanne Finney, Good Housekeeping

A mesmerizing modern tale about worlds dangerously colliding, the monsters that are unleashed when reason recedes, and a beautiful testament to the power of love and humanity in chaotic times.

Kevin McGough, The Fix

A joyous, fractured fairytale with a cast of thousands and a darkly glittering heart.

Alex Preston, Observer

Will no doubt be read for generations to come.

Rohan Silva, Evening Standard

Salman Rushdie described a battle between Islamic jinn for a 21st-century Earth.

Tim Martin, Daily Telegraph

An energetic return to form pitting reason against religious zeal

Justine Jordan, Guardian

Magic realism squared […] the most madcap fun you’re likely to have in a book this year.

Olaf Tyaransen, Hot Press

I love, love, love the Rushdie – I think it’s my favourite of his… The fantasy elements are just magical and, of course, it’s gorgeously written.

Marianne Faithfull, Observer

An apocalyptic battle between reason and unreason, good and evil, light and darkness, with all the bells and whistles of a Hollywood blockbuster.

Carlos Fraenkel, London Review of Books

Not only a beautifully written satire-as-fairytale but the subject matter is bang on trend… That Rushdie should still be writing so potently and still be continuing to push back the frontiers, when he could easily pull up a deck chair and languish on the frontiers he already owns is wonderful, inspirational and profoundly (but only in the best way) terrifying… 10/10, Master.

Starburst Magazine

Ambitious, smart and dark fable that is full of rich and profound notions about human nature.

Katherine McLaughlin, SciFi Now

I like to think how many readers are going to admire the courage of this book, revel in its fierce colours, its boisterousness, humour and tremendous pizzazz, and take delight in its generosity of spirit.

Ursula K Le Guin, Guardian