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MIDNIGHT'S CHILDREN

By Salman Rushdie

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| Hardcover | 9780394514703

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The original stage adaptation of Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children, winner of the 1993 Booker of Bookers, the best book to win the Booker Prize in its first twenty-five years.

In the moments of upheaval that surround the stroke of midnight on August 14--15, 1947, the dayContinue

The original stage adaptation of Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children, winner of the 1993 Booker of Bookers, the best book to win the Booker Prize in its first twenty-five years.

In the moments of upheaval that surround the stroke of midnight on August 14--15, 1947, the day India proclaimed its independence from Great Britain, 1,001 children are born--each of whom is gifted with supernatural powers. Midnight’s Children focuses on the fates of two of them--the illegitimate son of a poor Hindu woman and the male heir of a wealthy Muslim family--who become inextricably linked when a midwife switches the boys at birth.

An allegory of modern India, Midnight’s Children is a family saga set against the volatile events of the thirty years following the country’s independence--the partitioning of India and Pakistan, the rule of Indira Gandhi, the onset of violence and war, and the imposition of martial law. It is a magical and haunting tale, of fragmentation and of the struggle for identity and belonging that links personal life with national history.

In collaboration with Simon Reade, Tim Supple and the Royal Shakespeare Society, Salman Rushdie has adapted his masterpiece for the stage.

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  • Book Review: Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie Share

    Sometimes, I wonder how authors like Salman Rushdie come up with books like these. I mean, one cannot help but give credit to authors who have the ability to come up with a bizarre yet fascinating premise, and turn it into 530 pages of pure art. What ... (read full critics)

    blogcritics published on Sun, 21 Aug 2011

  • Guardian book club: Language of film

    Saleem Sinai, the narrator of Midnight's Children, sometimes finds that his memory is like a film. Recalling how as a child, convinced that his mother was having an affair, he followed her to an assignation at a Bombay cafe, he slips easily into the ... (read full critics)

    guardian.co.uk published on Fri, 24 Sep 2010

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    Fabulous

    Saleem Sinai was born in India, on the midnight of its independence. Rushdie tells the story of Saleem - and of his family - magically tied in the history of India by the time of his birth. In doing so, the author uses English like play dough shaping the story into a fable. No word is chosen at rand ... (continue)

    Saleem Sinai was born in India, on the midnight of its independence. Rushdie tells the story of Saleem - and of his family - magically tied in the history of India by the time of his birth. In doing so, the author uses English like play dough shaping the story into a fable. No word is chosen at random or by habit. And the rhythm, o such rhythm.

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    fran_ces said on Mar 8, 2010 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

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    The Booker of Booker Prize winners. Best novel in 25 years.

    Midnight's Children is Rushdie at his finest. The book is surrealist fiction that deals with the history of India from 1910 to the declaration of the emergency in 1976 through the eyes (and nose) of Saleem Sinai, born on the stroke o ... (continue)

    The Booker of Booker Prize winners. Best novel in 25 years.

    Midnight's Children is Rushdie at his finest. The book is surrealist fiction that deals with the history of India from 1910 to the declaration of the emergency in 1976 through the eyes (and nose) of Saleem Sinai, born on the stroke of Midnight August 15, 1947. Midnight's Children, like most of Rushdie's writing, does have political overtones, yet the fog of larger events is never permitted to detract from the more personal experiences of all the multi-faceted characters in the novel.

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    ambient pleasures said on Sep 12, 2006 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

  • Like nothing else I've ever read.

    This is more than a book. It's more than three books. Somehow it combines two hundred different plot threads in a beautiful, unique style that leaves you reeling. Astonishingly good.

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    Emma Crighton said on Feb 29, 2012 about the eBook edition | Add your feedback

  • This book is incredibly well written, and magic realism is one of my favourite genres. I've been meaning to read this since I was about 15, and I'm very pleased I have now achieved that goal! As far as the story goes though, I have to say I found it somewhat more depressing than other books in the s ... (continue)

    This book is incredibly well written, and magic realism is one of my favourite genres. I've been meaning to read this since I was about 15, and I'm very pleased I have now achieved that goal! As far as the story goes though, I have to say I found it somewhat more depressing than other books in the same vein - Isabelle Allende's House of the Spirits, for example - which deal with just as dark and violent subjects, but somehow retain a sense of lightness in a way I personally prefer.

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    Kahlamayhew said on Aug 4, 2010 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

  • Hard-going narrative structure, not what I was expecting but once you get into the swing of Rushdie's writing style the lyrical beauty shines through. This is a fantastically rich book; you can almost taste and smell India in its pages. Extremely evocative and powerful.

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    Sugarbear said on Jun 8, 2010 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

  • This is a five-star book. More than Rushdie at his finest, it's Literature at its finest.

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    Mawy3 said on Apr 4, 2008 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

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