„Doi ani, opt luni și douăzeci și opt de nopți” - Salman Rushdie
Traducere de Dana Crăciun, colecția Biblioteca Polirom, editura Polirom, 2015
Romanul (unul SF) va fi lansat la Târgul de carte Gaudeamus, 18-22 noiembrie, București.
Ediția originala a romanului a apărut marți, 8 septembrie 2015 la editura Penguin Random House.
„The novel is narrated by an unidentified voice in a future a millennium from now, but readers will identify the setting as a version of contemporary New York City.
The story told is that of a period lasting two years, eight months and 28 nights, during which a war of the worlds was waged.
This is heralded by a cataclysmic storm that brings with it certain “strangenesses”, signalling that the boundaries between the human and fairy worlds – the latter being the home of the jinn, which are “whimsical, capricious, wanton” creatures – have been breached.
A Manhattan-dwelling gardener wakes up one morning to find he’s levitating; the character of an aspiring graphic novelist comes mysteriously to life; and a baby with the ability to detect corruption is found abandoned in City Hall, a “human broom” with which the mayor can usefully clean office.”
The story told is that of a period lasting two years, eight months and 28 nights, during which a war of the worlds was waged.
This is heralded by a cataclysmic storm that brings with it certain “strangenesses”, signalling that the boundaries between the human and fairy worlds – the latter being the home of the jinn, which are “whimsical, capricious, wanton” creatures – have been breached.
A Manhattan-dwelling gardener wakes up one morning to find he’s levitating; the character of an aspiring graphic novelist comes mysteriously to life; and a baby with the ability to detect corruption is found abandoned in City Hall, a “human broom” with which the mayor can usefully clean office.”
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