«Deux ans, huit mois et vingt-huit nuits» est un conte merveilleux qui interroge notre vie contemporaine à la lumière de l'histoire et de la mythologie. Échappés de leur univers aussi fabuleux qu'ennuyeux, des djinns viennent mêler leur immortalité fascinée à la finitude des hommes, et partager la folle aventure de leur active et permanente déraison. À la fois inspirée par une tradition narrative deux fois millénaire et enracinée dans les multiples préoccupations du temps présent, portée par une langue où l'épique le dispute au comique et la légende à la méditation philosophique et politique, une fiction fastueuse et envoûtante, d'une puissance narrative et imaginaire à couper le souffle.

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 sub-Stan Lee 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. 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. Once the line between worlds is breached on a grand scale, Dunia’s children and others will play a role in an epic war between light and dark spanning a thousand and one nights - or two years, eight months, and twenty-eight nights. It is a time of enormous upheaval, in which beliefs are challenged, words act like poison, silence is a disease, and a noise may contain a hidden curse.