Midnight's Children (Everyman's Library, 217)

Rushdie, Salman (Introduction by Anita Desai)

ISBN 10: 0679444629 / ISBN 13: 9780679444626

Published by Alfred A. Knopf, 1995

About this Item

Tenth printing. Inscribed and signed by Rushdie on front endpaper. Neat pale yellow highlighting in introduction only. Gold marker ribbon. Lacking DJ. Miniscule ding front top edge. Seller Inventory # 23-207

Bibliographic Details

Title: Midnight's Children (Everyman's Library, 217)

Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf

Publication Date: 1995

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Signed: Inscribed by Author(s)

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.