Translated to Arabic, 'Two years, eight months and twenty-eight nights' a novel by Salman Rushdie, with translation of Khalid al-Jubali. 'The central character...is a man who has been cursed and then gets blamed for it.'Geronimo Manezes, a Mumbai-born gardener now living in New York, has begun to levitate. This isn’t the wish fulfillment of a flying dream; it threatens his livelihood and brings the increasing hostility of strangers. 'Why do you imagine I consider my condition an improvement? he wanted to cry out. Why, when it has ­ruined my life and I fear it may bring about my early death?' ' (NY Times, Marcel Theroux, on the English edition).