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Saleem Sinai, the narrator of Midnight's Children, opens the novel by explaining that he was born on midnight, August 15, 1947, at the exact moment India gained its independence from British rule. Now nearing his thirty-first birthday, Saleem believes that his body is beginning to crack and fall apart. Fearing that his death is imminent, he grows anxious to tell his life story. Padma, his loyal and loving companion, serves as his patient, often skeptical audience.
E sta es la historia de Saleem Sinai, nacido en Bombay al filo de la medianoche del 15 de agosto de 1947, en el momento mismo en que la India, entre fuegos artificiales y multitudes, alcanza su independencia. El destino de Saleem queda inexorablemente unido al de su pai s, y sus peripecias personales reflejara n siempre la evolucio n poli tica de la India o sera n reflejadas por ella. Es la historia de un hombre dotado de facultades inso litas pero tambie n la de una generacio n y la de una familia, lo que la convierte en un retrato completo de toda una e poca y una cultura. Ganadora del prestigioso premio Booker of Bookers, Hijos de la medianoche constituye una asombrosa novela que combina magistralmente magia y humor, compromiso politico fantasi a y humanidad.
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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 SethEdition | Availability |
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Midnight's Children: A BBC Between the Covers Big Jubilee Read Pick
2023, Penguin Random House
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Wu ye zhi zi: Midnight's children
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I figli della mezzanotte
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Midnight's Children: a novel
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Hijos de la medianoche
2009 February, Mondadori
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Midnight's Children
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Midnight's Children
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Midnight's Children: A Novel
2006, Random House Trade Paperbacks
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Ādhī rāta kī santāneṃ
2004, Vāṇī Prakāśana
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Midnight's Children
February 2002, Turtleback Books Distributed by Demco Media
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Midnight's Children: Great Books Edition (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century)
January 1, 2000, Penguin (Non-Classics)
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Midnight's Children
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Hijos de La Medianoche
December 1997, Plaza & Janes Editores, S.A.
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Midnight's Children (Everyman's Library Classics)
September 21, 1995, Everyman's Library, David Campbell
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Midnight's Children
1991, Penguin Books
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Midnight's Children
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Les Enfants De Minuit
April 1, 1989, Livre de Poche
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Les enfants de minuit: roman
1984, Québec/Amérique
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Midnight's Children
1981, Alfred A. Knopf
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Hijos de la medianoche/ Midnight's Children
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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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