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Tickets on sale for Salman Rushdie event
Tickets are on sale now to see Salman Rushdie talking about his new book Two Years, Eight Months & Twenty-Eight Nights at St George’s. Rushdie will be appearing as part of the Festival of Ideas on Sunday October 11.
Rushdie, who has been known to even sign a jar of pickles at one of his Bristol events has a new novel coming out in September. It is described as a masterful, mesmerising, modern tale about worlds dangerously colliding, and the monsters that are unleashed when reason recedes; a beautiful testament to the power of love and humanity in chaotic times.
In the near future, after a storm strikes New York City, the strangenesses begin. A gardener finds that his feet no longer touch the ground. A graphic novelist awakens to a mysterious entity that resembles his own creation. A baby identifies corruption marking the guilty with blemishes and boils.
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Unbeknownst to them, they are all descended from the creatures known as the jinn, who live in a world separated from ours by a veil. Centuries ago, Dunia, a princess of the jinn, fell in love with a mortal man. Together they produced an astonishing number of children, unaware of their fantastical powers, who spread across generations in the human world.
Once the veil between worlds is breached, Dunia’s children play a role in an epic war between light and dark spanning a thousand and one nights — or two years, eight months, and twenty-eight nights. It is a time of upheaval, where beliefs are challenged, words act like poison, silence is a disease, and a noise may contain a curse.
Inspired by 2,000 years of storytelling yet rooted in the concerns of our present moment, Two Years, Eight Months & Twenty-Eight Nights is satirical and bawdy, full of cunning and folly, rivalries and betrayals, kismet and karma, rapture and redemption – and both very funny and terrifying.
Bristol24/7 looks forward to even more adventurous stories about signings in October.
Price: £9/ £8
For tickets and more information, visit the Festival of Ideas.
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