Midnight's Children
The iconic Booker-prize winning novel, from bestselling author Salman Rushdie
$25.76
- Paperback
672 pages
- Release Date
1 May 2008
Summary
Reissued to mark the 40th anniversary of Rushdie’s masterpiece, this edition carries a new introduction written for the occasion.
“A wonderful, rich and humane novel… a classic” - Guardian
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 …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780099511892 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0099511894 |
| Author: | Salman Rushdie |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 672 |
| Release Date: | 1 May 2008 |
| Weight: | 466g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm x 43mm |
| Series: | Vintage Classics |
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Critics Review
A magical-realist reflection of the issues India faced post-independence including culture, language, religion, and politics… It’s a truly incredible work.
Totally different to anything I’d read before: hilarious at times, frustrating at times, exploring how history is linked into our lives, plus lots of metaphors about chutney * Skinny *A wonderful, rich and humane novel that is safe to call a classic. * Guardian *Midnight’s Children is also full of such zest for every messy aspect of life that you can’t help but feel inspired * Guardian *Rushdie’s novel took a post-colonial “empire fights back” spirit, and a deep personal understanding of the politics of Indian partition, and exploded them into something teeming with imaginative life… He inhabits a hybrid consciousness, with a telepathic connection to the other children of midnight, and tells its stories for all he is worth. * Observer *The extraordinary alchemy of Midnight’s Children was its miraculous fusion of the fantastical and the historical. * Evening Standard *A magical-realist reflection of the issues India faced post-independence including culture, language, religion, and politics… It’s a truly incredible work. * Verdict *A head-spinning tale… Rushdie’s masterpiece virtually invented a new language for Anglo-Indian literature * Reader’s Digest *Totally different to anything I’d read before: hilarious at times, frustrating at times, exploring how history is linked into our lives, plus lots of metaphors about chutney * Skinny *Fresh and witty * Eastern Eye *One of the most important books to come out of the English-speaking world in this generation * The New York Review of Books *
About The Author
Salman Rushdie
Salman Rushdie is one of the world’s most acclaimed, award-winning contemporary authors. Translated into over forty languages, his sixteen works of fiction include Midnight’s Children - for which he won the Booker Prize in 1981, the Booker of Bookers on the 25th anniversary of the prize and Best of the Booker on the 40th anniversary - Shame, The Satanic Verses, Quichotte and Victory City. His latest book, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder was a number one Sunday Times bestseller. A former president of PEN American Center, Rushdie was knighted in 2007 for services to literature and was made a Companion of Honour in the Queen’s last Birthday Honours list in 2022.
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