Book review: Two Years, Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights

SALMAN Rushdie’s tenth novel opens in Arab Spain in 1195, when disgraced court physician and philosopher Ibn Rushd takes in the mysterious 16-year-old orphan Dunia.

Sat, 19 Sep, 2015 - 01:00

Review: Declan Burke

Salman Rushdie

Jonathan Cape €28.50; ebook, €18.99

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