Midnight's children
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- ISBN: 9780307367754 (electronic bk.)
- ISBN: 0307367754 (electronic bk.)
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1 online resource - Publisher: Don Mills, Ontario : Vintage Canada, 2010.
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Subject: | India -- Social life and customs -- Fiction India -- Social conditions -- Fiction India -- Politics and government -- Fiction |
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- Random House, Inc.
Winner of the Booker prize and twice winner of the Booker of Bookers, Midnight's Children is "one of the most important books to come out of the English-speaking world in this generation" (New York Review of Books). Reissued for the 40th anniversary of the original publication--with a new introduction from the author--Salman Rushdie's widely acclaimed novel is a masterpiece in literature.
Saleem Sinai is born at the stroke of midnight on August 15, 1947, the very moment of Indiaâs independence. Greeted by fireworks displays, cheering crowds, and Prime Minister Nehru himself, Saleem grows up to learn the ominous consequences of this coincidence. His every act is mirrored and magnified in events that sway the course of national affairs; his health and well-being are inextricably bound to those of his nation; his life is inseparable, at times indistinguishable, from the history of his country. Perhaps most remarkable are the telepathic powers linking him with Indiaâs 1,000 other âmidnightâs children,â all born in that initial hour and endowed with magical gifts.
This novel is at once a fascinating family saga and an astonishing evocation of a vast land and its peopleâa brilliant incarnation of the universal human comedy. Midnightâs Children stands apart as both an epochal work of fiction and a brilliant performance by one of the great literary voices of our time.