Midnight's Children: Vintage 21 - Softcover

Rushdie, Salman

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0099554038 ISBN 13: 9780099554035

Publisher: Vintage, 2011

Synopsis

Born at the stroke of midnight at the exact moment of India's independence, Saleem Sinai is a special child. However, this coincidence of birth has consequences he is not prepared for: telepathic powers connect him with 1,000 other 'midnight's children' all of whom are endowed with unusual gifts. Inextricably linked to his nation, Saleem's story is a whirlwind of disasters and triumphs that mirrors the course of modern India at its most impossible and glorious.

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Review:

Before Salman Rushdie had that problem with a certain religious-political figure with a serious need to chill out, he'd already shown he was an important literary force. Quite simply, Midnight's Children is amazing--fun, beautiful, erudite, both fairy tale and political narrative told through a supernatural narrator who is caught between different worlds. Though it's a big book, with big themes of India's nationhood and of ethnic and personal identity, it's far from a dry history lesson. Rushdie tells the story in his own brand of magical realism, with a prose of lyrical, transcendent goofiness.

Review:

"One of the most important books to come out of the English-speaking world in this generation" (The New York Review of Books)

About this edition

• Publisher: Vintage
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0099554038
• ISBN 13: 9780099554035
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 672