Appearing in Brooklyn,Rushdie illuminated the connections he sees between the ‘fairylands’ of Two Years, Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights and real lifeFor all that Salman Rushdie insists his newest book is as “fictionally fictional” as possible, or the novel’s flame-and-smoke genies and medieval philosophers draw a surprising amount of influence from his own life.The plot of Two Years,Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights – whose title works out to Scheherazade’s famed 1001 nights – can be most succinctly described as “genies lift Manhattan”, said Rushdie at the Brooklyn Public Library on Sunday, or in conversation with writer and Guernica editor Joel Whitney. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com