<p><b>Blending history, mythology and a timeless love story, this is a satirical, magical masterpiece.</b><br><br> In the near future, after a storm strikes New York City, the strangenesses begin. A down-to-earth gardener finds that his feet no longer touch the ground. A graphic novelist awakens in his bedroom to a mysterious entity that resembles his own comic book creation. Abandoned at the mayor''s office, a baby identifies corruption with her mere presence, marking the guilty with blemishes and boils. A seductive gold digger is soon tapped to combat forces beyond imagining.<br><br> Unbeknownst to them, they are all descended from the whimsical, capricious, wanton creatures known as the jinn. Centuries ago, Dunia, a princess of the jinn, fell in love with a mortal man of reason. Together they produced an astonishing number of children, unaware of their fantastical powers, who spread across generations in the human world.<br><br><b>''A riotous, exuberant and sometimes maddening celeb
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Samme dag som Barack Obama blir tatt i ed som USAs 44. president, kommer en mystisk milliardær til Greenwich Willage i New York. Naboene blir umiddelbart fascinert av den eksentriske nykommeren og de tre sønnene hans. Nero Golden blir sammen med sin...
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An astounding, intense novel by the Booker-prize winning author of Midnight's Children. In the summer of 2000 New York is a city living at breakneck speed in an age of unprecedented decadence. And so he steps out of his life once again and begins...
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But after 777 years of sailing the world's seas, he becomes weary of life, and sets out to find the mystical Calf Island, a place where his fellow immortals have gathered and created their own version of the human race. But Calf Island is a strange...
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<p>Salman Rushdie, a self-described ¿emigrant from one place and a newcomer in two¿, explores the true meaning of home. Writing with insight, passion and humour, he looks at what it means to belong, whether roots are real and homelands imaginary,...
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