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Salman Rushdie's genies are troublemaking, impudent, amoral genies based on Islamic folklore.  

They are fond Mr. Rushdie tells us — "of glittering things" — and they usher us into a world of the supernatural in his new novel 

Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights

 to talk about his new novel which imagines a future world overrun by ancient genies.

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Salman Rushdie's genies are troublemaking, impudent, amoral genies based on Islamic folklore.   He joined Kerri Miller to talk about their appearance in his new novel.

10:00 a.m. - Salman Rushdie on "Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights"
Author Salman Rushdie joins Kerri to talk about his new novel, "Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights," which imagines a future world overrun by ancient genies.

Salman Rushdie on ancient genies and 'Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights'

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