Saleem Sinai is born at the stroke of midnight on August 15, 1947, the very moment of India's independence. Greeted by fireworks displays, cheering crowds, and Prime Minister Nehru himself, Saleem grows up to learn the ominous consequences of this coincidence. His every act is mirrored and magnified in events that sway the course of national affairs; his health and well-being are inextricably bound to those of his nation; his life is inseparable, at times indistinguishable, from the history of his country. Perhaps most remarkable are the telepathic powers linking him with India's 1,000 other midnight's children, all born in that initial hour and endowed with magical gifts.
This novel is at once a fascinating family saga and an astonishing evocation of a vast land and its people-a brilliant incarnation of the universal human comedy. Twenty-five years after its publication, Midnight's Children stands apart as both an epochal work of fiction and a brilliant performance by one of the great literary voices of our time.
Closing date: 04/07/2018
'Extraordinary . . . one of the most important [novels] to come out of the English-speaking world in this generation.' - The New York Review of Books
'The literary map of India is about to be redrawn. . . . Midnight's Children sounds like a continent finding its voice.' - The New York Times
'In Salman Rushdie, India has produced a glittering novelist- one with startling imaginative and intellectual resources, a master of perpetual storytelling.' - The New Yorker
'A marvelous epic . . . Rushdie's prose snaps into playback and flash-forward . . . stopping on images, vistas, and characters of unforgettable presence. Their range is as rich as India herself.' - Newsweek
'Burgeons with life, with exuberance and fantasy . . . Rushdie is a writer of courage, impressive strength, and sheer stylistic brilliance.' - The Washington Post Book World
'Pure story-an ebullient, wildly clowning, satirical, descriptively witty charge of energy. '
- Chicago Sun-Times
ISBN: 9780099582076
Publication date: 03/01/2013
Publisher: Vintage
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780099578512
Publication date: 04/08/2011
Publisher: Vintage
Format: Paperback
| ISBN: | 9780099582076 |
| Publication date: | 3rd January 2013 |
| Author: | Salman Rushdie |
| Publisher: | Vintage |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Genres: | eBook Favourites, Literary Fiction, |
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Sir Salman Rushdie was born in Bombay (now Mumbai) on 19 June 1947. He went to school in Bombay and at Rugby in England, and read History at King's College, Cambridge, where he joined the Cambridge Footlights theatre company. After graduating, he lived with his family who had moved to Pakistan in 1964, and worked briefly in television before returning to England, beginning work as a copywriter for an advertising agency. His first novel, Grimus, was published in 1975. His second novel, the acclaimed Midnight's Children, was published in 1981. It won the Booker Prize for Fiction, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize (for fiction), ...
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