Salman Rushdie's New Supernatural Story That Leaps To The Modern Day

The Leonard Lopate Show | Sep 3, 2015

Salman Rushdie talks about his new novel, Two Years, Eight Months, and Twenty-Eight Nights. Centuries ago, Dunia, a princess of the jinn, fell in love with a mortal man of reason. Together they produced an astonishing number of children, who spread through generations across the world. After a storm strikes New York City, the strange, supernatural nature of this lineage begins to show itself.

Events: Salman Rushdie will be speaking and signing books at The PowerHouse Arena, 37 Main Street, Brooklyn, September 8 from 7:30 PM – 9:30 PM

Salman Rushdie will be in Conversation with A.M Holmes at Thalia Book Club at Symphony Space, 2537 Broadway,  September 16 at 7:30 PM

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