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Format: Paperback
ISBN-10: 0812976533
ISBN-13: 9780812976533
Apr 2006
Publisher: Penguin Group USA
533 pages
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Synopsis
Salman Rushdie won the Booker Prize for this novel, which follows the lives of children born on August 15, 1947, the day India became an independent nation. The book is simultaneously the story of one boy's coming of age, a chronicle of the growing pains of the new nation, and a family drama, all told in a magical-realist style that manages to be humorous and hopeful despite the gravity of the events depicted.
| Size | | Length: | 533 pages | | Height: | 8.0 in | | Width: | 5.3 in | | Thickness: | 1.2 in | | Weight: | 14.4 oz |
Industry Reviews
"In Salman Rushdie, India has produced a glittering novelist--one with startling imaginative and intellectual resources, a master of perpetual storytelling."
V. S. Pritchett
"An extraordinary novel...one of the most important to come out of the English speaking world in this generation."
New York Review of Books - Robert Towers
"We have an epic in our laps. The obvious comparisons are to Gunter Grass in 'The Tin Drum' and to Gabriel Garcia Marquez in 'One Hundred Years of Solitude'. I am happy to oblige the obvious....I wish Mr. Rushdie's children, all of them orphans of history, would take over the world at dawn. This novel--exuberant, excessive, despairing--is special."
New York Times - John Leonard
"In 'Midnight's Children', he created a character who is nothing less than India herself, wired telepathically to all the other children born at the very instant when India became a nation, enfolding all contradictions, sinned against and sinning, mad as hell and forgiving all."
Millennium Whole Earth Catalog - JRC
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