A history of India since independence seen through the eyes of characters born on that independence was granted.
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A history of India since independence seen through the eyes of characters born on that independence was granted.
Description
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.
Awards
Winner of Booker of Bookers 1993
Winner of James Tait Black Memorial Prize (Fiction) 1981
Winner of Booker Prize for Fiction 1981
Runner-up for The BBC Big Read Top 100 2003
Short-listed for Best of the Booker 2008
Short-listed for BBC Big Read Top 100 2003
Critic Reviews
" Extraordinary . . . one of the most important [novels] to come out of the English-speaking world in this generation."
- The New York Review of Books
" The literary map of India is about to be redrawn. . . . Midnight's Children sounds like a continent finding its voice."
- The New York Times
" In Salman Rushdie, India has produced a glittering novelist- one with startling imaginative and intellectual resources, a master of perpetual storytelling."
- The New Yorker
" A marvelous epic . . . Rushdie's prose snaps into playback and flash-forward . . . stopping on images, vistas, and characters of unforgettable presence. Their range is as rich as India herself."
- Newsweek
" Burgeons with life, with exuberance and fantasy . . . Rushdie is a writer of courage, impressive strength, and sheer stylistic brilliance."
- The Washington Post Book World
" Pure story- an ebullient, wildly clowning, satirical, descriptively witty charge of energy."
- Chicago Sun-Times
About the Author
Salman Rushdie is the author of fourteen previous novels, including Midnight's Children (for which he won the Booker Prize and the Best of the Booker), The Satanic Verses, and Quichotte (which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize). 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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