Midnight's Children

Rushdie, Salman; Anita Desai (Intro)

ISBN 10: 0679444629 / ISBN 13: 9780679444626

Published by Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1995

About this Item

Everyman's Library; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 632 pages; 1995 Alfred A. Knopf / Everyman's Library. HC/DJ 1st Everyman's printing. Snugly bound and clean in original pictorial dust jacket with publisher's $20 issue price intact to unclipped front flap. Prior owner's small circular ownership stamp to front flyleaf; otherwise clean and unmarked. Mild toning to page block edges; superficial shelf evidence to jacket edges and surfaces. VG+/VG+. Seller Inventory # 55084

Bibliographic Details

Title: Midnight's Children

Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf, New York

Publication Date: 1995

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+

Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+

Edition: First Edition Thus.

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.