Midnight's Children (Everyman's Library)

Rushdie, Salman; Desai, Anita [Introduction]

ISBN 10: 0679444629 / ISBN 13: 9780679444626

Published by Everyman's Library, 1995

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1st Everyman's Library edition 1st printing - slight wear to top edge of dust jacket (now in mylar cover) otherwise cover fine binding strong contents clean - enjoy. Seller Inventory # 2105140002

Bibliographic Details

Title: Midnight's Children (Everyman's Library)

Publisher: Everyman's Library

Publication Date: 1995

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Edition: Third Printing.

About this title

Synopsis:

A classic novel, in which the man who calls himself the "bomb of Bombay" chronicles the story of a child and a nation that both came into existence in 1947--and examines a whole people's capacity for carrying inherited myths and inventing new ones.

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.