Salman Rushdie on ancient genies and 'Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights'
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.
Rushdie joined MPR News with Kerri Miller to talk about his new novel which imagines a future world overrun by ancient genies.
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