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Midnight's Children (Everyman's Library Classics) Book

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.Read More

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  • Amazon

    This is a history of India since independence, seen through the eyes of characters born on the day that independence was granted. The book is a multi-layered narrative, in which the complexities of the sub-continent are projected through the minds of its many characters.

  • Foyles

    A history of India since independence seen through the eyes of characters born on that independence was granted. Often hailed as a classic of magic realism, this is a many-layered and entralling narrative in which the complexities of the sub-continent are projected through the minds of its many characters, comic, tragic and fantastic by turns, this is the novel which revolutionized English literature in one fell swoop. MIDNIGHT'S CHILDREN was voted in the Booker of Bookers in 1993.

  • BookDepository

    Midnight's Children : Hardback : Everyman : 9781857152173 : 1857152174 : 21 Sep 1995 : A history of India since independence seen through the eyes of characters born on that independence was granted.

  • Pickabook

    Salman Rushdie, Anita Desai

  • 1857152174
  • 9781857152173
  • Salman Rushdie
  • 21 September 1995
  • Everyman's Library
  • Hardcover (Book)
  • 589
  • New edition
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