British Author Salman Rushdie will release his first novel in seven years, Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights, his publishers reported. The book, a reference to the collection of folk tales known as The Arabian Nights, will go on sale in September.

Random House publishers Jonathan Cape called the book a “wonder tale about the way we live now” that “blends history, mythology, and a timeless love story to bring alive a world...that has been plunged into an age of unreason.”

Known for his lengthy tomes such as Midnight’s Children, which won the Booker Prize, Rushdie said this new novel will be shorter than his previous works.

“It’s not long. It will be something like 250 pages, which is like clearing my throat. I have finally learned to shut up,” he reportedly said at the Cheltenham Literature Festival in southwest England last year.

Rushdie’s last book, his memoir, Joseph Anton, was published in 2012. He is fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres and has written 11 novels, including The Satanic Verses, which, in 1989, was placed under a fatwa by Iran.