An edition of Midnight's Children
(1981)
Midnight's Children
12th printing
by Salman Rushdie
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Born at the stroke of midnight on August 15, 1947, at the precise moment of India's independence, the infant Saleem Sinai is celebrated in the press and welcomed by Prime Minister Nehru himself. But this coincidence of birth has consequences Saleem is not prepared for: telepathic powers that connect him with 1,000 other "midnight's children"--all born in the initial hour of India's independence--and an uncanny sense of smell that allows him to sniff out dangers others cannot perceive. Inextricably linked to his nation, Saleem's biography is a whirlwind of disasters and triumphs that mirror the course of modern India at its most impossible and glorious.
Ebullient, operatic, comic, and serious, this novel is a wild, astonishing evocation of the maturity of a vast and complicated land and its people--a brilliant incarnation of the universal human comedy, Indian-style.
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literary fiction, telepathy, epic literature, epic fiction, Novel, Rushdie, Salman - Prose & Criticism, Fiction, Spanish: Adult Fiction, relations, Hinduism, interfaith relations, Nin os de los ricos, Paranormal fiction, Sobrenatural, Poor children, Infants switched at birth, Novela, Islam, Relaciones, Nin os lactantes, Nin os pobres, Children of the rich, Hinduismo, postcolonial literature, partition of India, British colonialism, magical realism, Supernatural, History, Man Booker Prize Winner, award:man_booker_prize=1981, German fiction, Translations from English, Infantes cambiados al nacer, Niños pobres, Ficción, Islamismo, Reading Level-Grade 7, Reading Level-Grade 9, Reading Level-Grade 8, Reading Level-Grade 11, Reading Level-Grade 10, Reading Level-Grade 12, Magic, Magia, Genios, Jinn, Fiction, general, India, fiction, English literature, Letteratura inglese, Romanzi, New York Times reviewed, Roman anglais, American fiction, Familie, Englisch, Roman, UnabhängigkeitPeople
Saleem Sinai, Aadam Aziz, Ahmed Sinai, Amina Sinai, Mary Pereira, Shiva, Parvati-The-Witch, Padma, Naseem Ghani, William Methwold, Alia, Hanif, Nadir Khan, Mustapha, Emerald, General Zulfikar, Zafar, Aadam Sinai, Picture Singh, Wee Willie Winkie, Vanita, Evie Lilith Burns, Sonny Ibrahim, Joseph D’Costa, Commander Sabarmati, Homi Catrack, Lila Sabarmati, Doctor Narlikar, Alice Pereira, Farooq, Shaheed, Ayooba, Narlikar Women, Mian Abdullah, Ghani, Tai, Ramram Seth| Edition | Availability |
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Midnight's Children
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Midnight's Children
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Hijos de La Medianoche
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Midnight's Children
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Les Enfants De Minuit
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Les enfants de minuit: roman
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Midnight's Children
1981, Alfred A. Knopf
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Hijos de la medianoche/ Midnight's Children
Publisher unknown
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Book Details
Table of Contents
1: Perforated sheet --
Mercurochrome --
Hit-the-spittoon --
Under the carpet --
Public announcement --
Many-headed monsters --
Methwold --
Tick, tock --
2: Fisherman's pointing finger --
Snakes and ladders --
Accident in a washing-chest --
All-India radio --
Love in Bombay --
My tenth birthday --
At the pioneer cafe --
Alpha and Omega --
Kolynos kid --
Commander Sabarmati's baton --
Revelations --
Movements performed by pepperpots --
Drainage and the desert --
Jamila singer --
How Saleem achieved purity --
3: Buddha --
In the sundarbans --
Sam and the tiger --
Shadow of the mosque --
Wedding --
Midnight --
Abracadabra.
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Midnight's Children is a 1981 novel by author Salman Rushdie. It portrays India's transition from British colonial rule to independence and the partition of India. It is considered an example of postcolonial, postmodern, and magical realist literature. The story is told by its chief protagonist, Saleem Sinai, and is set in the context of actual historical events. The style of preserving history with fictional accounts is self-reflexive.
Midnight's Children won both the Booker Prize and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize in 1981. It was awarded the "Booker of Bookers" Prize and the best all-time prize winners in 1993 and 2008 to celebrate the Booker Prize 25th and 40th anniversary.In 2003, the novel was listed on the BBC's The Big Read poll of the UK's "best-loved novels". It was also added to the list of Great Books of the 20th Century, published by Penguin Books.
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