Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights by Salman Rushdie

Imagine a disjunctive moment of historic importance—at a stroke of a clock, present and future are irreparably torn from the anchor of the past. In the aftermath, cultures clash and supernatural powers are unleashed. A warp is opened in the space-time continuum. Laws of physics are changed, and real-life alchemy can create gold on demand. A magical baby…