Two years, eight months and twenty-eight days

This is both a fairy tale and a parable, as well as satire. A story about the near future, about the so-called extraordinary events that begin to occur in New York and its surroundings, about a genie’s love for an ordinary man, about their offspring left on Earth, about the war between dark and light forces that lasted a thousand and one days. Salman Rushdie competes with Scheherazade in the art of storytelling, which helped her avoid death.