Два года, восемь месяцев и двадцать восемь дней

Dva goda vosemʹ mesi͡at͡sev i dvadt͡satʹ vosemʹ nocheĭ' - roman Salmana Rushdi, laureata Bukerovskoĭ premii, avtora bestsellerov "Deti polunochi", "Styd" i "Kloun Shalimar".Posle strashnoĭ buri, obrushivsheĭsi͡a na Nʹi͡u-Ĭork, v gorode nachinai͡ut proiskhoditʹ strannye veshchi, i vesʹ mir meni͡aet svoĭ oblik. Sadovnik obnaruzhivaet, chto umeet levitirovatʹ. Avtor komiksov prosypaetsi͡a v svoeĭ spalʹne i popadaet v krotovui͡u noru. Rebenok poluchaet sposobnostʹ raspoznavatʹ korrupt͡sionerov, lishʹ kosnuvshisʹ ikh.Vsekh ėtikh li͡udeĭ obʺedini͡aet to, chto ikh predkami byli prichudlivye, kapriznye i rasputnye sushchestva, izvestnye kak dzhinny - oni zhivut v vysshem mire snov, otdelennom ot nashego zavesoĭ. Mnogo vekov nazad Dunʹi͡a, print͡sessa dzhinnov, poli͡ubila izvestnogo filosofa Ibn Rushda. Oni proizveli na svet ogromnoe kolichestvo deteĭ, ne podozrevai͡ushchikh o svoikh fantasticheskikh sposobnosti͡akh; oni rasselilisʹ po vsemu miru, ozhidai͡a svoego chasa.Kogda t͡selai͡a orda dzhinnov pod predvoditelʹstvom Velikogo Ifrita Zumurruda vtorglasʹ na Zemli͡u, Dunʹi͡a i ee potomki vstali na zashchitu chelovechestva; i ėpicheskoe srazhenie mezhdu svetom i tʹmoĭ prodlilosʹ tysi͡achu i odnu nochʹ - to estʹ dva goda, vosemʹ mesi͡at͡sev i dvadt͡satʹ vosemʹ nocheĭ.Vdokhnovlennyĭ tradit͡sionnymi vostochnymi skazkami, roman Rushdi - ėto satiricheskai͡a i ėpokhalʹnai͡a saga o vekovykh konfliktakh, kovarstve i gluposti, sopernichestve i predatelʹstve, li͡ubvi i nenavisti.

Two years, eight months and twenty—eight Nights' is a novel by Salman Rushdie, winner of the Booker Prize, author of the bestsellers “Midnight's Children”, “Shame“ and "Shalimar the Clown".After a terrible storm hit New York, strange things begin to happen in the city, and the whole world changes its appearance. The gardener discovers that he can levitate. The comic book author wakes up in his bedroom and falls into a wormhole. The child gets the ability to recognize corrupt officials only by touching them.All these people are united by the fact that their ancestors were bizarre, capricious and dissolute creatures known as jinns — they live in a higher world of dreams, separated from ours by a veil. Many centuries ago, Dunya, the princess of the jinn, fell in love with the famous philosopher Ibn Rushd. They have produced a huge number of children who are unaware of their fantastic abilities; they have spread all over the world, waiting in the wings.When a whole horde of jinn led by the Great Ifrit Zumurrud invaded the Earth, Dunya and her descendants stood up for humanity; and the epic battle between light and darkness lasted a thousand and one nights — that is, two years, eight months and twenty-eight nights.Inspired by traditional Oriental fairy tales, Rushdie's novel is a satirical and epochal saga about age—old conflicts, cunning and stupidity, rivalry and betrayal, love and hate.