Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights

A novel set in the near future and in the distant past, inspired by the title's echo of the Thousand and One Nights. After a great storm, strange events begin to disturb the world as the barrier between humans and the realm of the jinn is torn open. The story links a twelfth-century philosopher, Ibn Rushd, with the people of present-day New York, who find themselves caught in a long war between reason and fanaticism. The book is a comic, fantastical tale that explores belief, enlightenment and the stories people use to understand the world.