MIDNIGHT'S CHILDREN [Signed]

Rushdie, Salman

ISBN 10: 039451470X / ISBN 13: 9780394514703

Published by Alfred A. Knopf, New York, NY, 1981

About this Item

Octavo, 446 pages. In Very Good condition with a Very Good minus condition dust jacket. Light red spine with black and burgundy lettering. Dust jacket is wrapped in a mylar covering, price is uncut "$13.95", has mild shelving wear, small closed tears along the head and tail edges, and mild age-toning throughout. Boards have mild wear along the head and tail edges, discoloration on the head and tail edges, and stains on the front and rear boards. Textblock has mild wear along the edges and light foxing along the head edge. Signed flat by Salman Rushdie on the title page. DL consignment. Shelved in Case 7. Salman Rushdie's second novel, "Midnight's Children" has sold over one-million copies and won the Booker prize and James Tait Black Memorial prizes in 1981 and has remained in the top 100 most beloved works in the UK since publication. 1394861. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.

Seller Inventory # 1394861

Bibliographic Details

• Title: MIDNIGHT'S CHILDREN [Signed]
• Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf, New York, NY
• Publication Date: 1981
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 039451470X
• ISBN 13: 9780394514703
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First American Edition, First Printing.
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Literature
  • Dupont Circle

About this title

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

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.