Midnight's Children
by Salman Rushdie
ISBN: 039451470X
ISBN-13: 9780394514703
Format: Hardcover
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Summary
Considered Salman Rushdie's masterpiece, MIDNIGHT'S CHILDREN has become a part of the literary canon, drawing comparisons to ARABIAN NIGHTS for its multi-layered narrative, to Joyce's ULYSSES for its literary and linguistic inventiveness, to Marquez's ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF SOLITUDE for its lush magical-realism, and Gunter Grass's THE TIN DRUM, for its ability to capture the history and zeitgeist of a nation. The novel is narrated by Saleem Sinai, a child born at the exact moment India gained independence in 1947, who discovers he has the telepathic ability to hear the thoughts of the one thousand and one other children born within the first hour of India's independence: the other "midnight's children." Mixing historical events and figures with witches, prophecy, and magic, the novel acts as an allegory for India's turbulent history, a coming-of-age tale, and an epic family saga. Hailed by TIME magazine as one of the hundred greatest novels in the English language, MIDNIGHT'S CHILDREN won the Booker prize in 1981, and also won the "Best of the Booker" prize in both 1993 and 2008, proving its lasting power.
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"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." -- Robert Towers
-- New York Review of Books
"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." -- John Leonard
-- New York Times
"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
Bibliographic Details
Publisher: Random House Inc
Published date: 1981
Edition: 1th edition
Pages: 446
Publisher's Notes
Combining a family saga with a rich evocation of modern India, this novel chronicles the maturation of Saleem, the narrator, and the contemporaneous development of India since 1947
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Midnight's Children
Salman Rushdie
Alfred a Knopf. Used - Acceptable. Former Library book. Shows definite wear, and perhaps considerable marking on inside. 100% Money Back Guarantee. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! ( more information) Offered by Better World Books (United States)
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Midnight's Children
Rushdie, Salman
Very good ex-library hardcover in very good plastic-covered dustjacket. Second printing, April 1981 stated on copyright page. A few library stamps and markings, tape marks, edgewear but overall a clean and tight former library book, no pockets or mutilations. ( more information) Offered by Bienville Books (United States)
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MIDNIGHT'S CHILDREN
Rushdie, Salman
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1981. Rushdie's second book - winner of the Booker Prize, and recently selected as the "Booker of Bookers." First edition, second printing - published in the same month (April 1981)as the first printing. 446 pages in excellent, clean, white condition. Endpapers clean. Burgundy cloth over grey boards, silver titles. Very light sunning along the top and bottom edges. Corners lightly worn. Pink DJ with black/ burgundy titles. Price-clipped. Tiny chips along top edge, head/tail of spine. Spine slightly faded, and with two tiny nicks. Corners lightly worn. Binding nice and tight. VG+/VG. First Edition, Second Printing. Hard Cover. VG+/VG. ( more information) Offered by Book Bazaar (Canada)
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Midnight's Children
RUSHDIE, Salman
NY: Knopf. 1981. Hardcover. 039451470X . The author's second book. Second printing. Light foxing on top edge, else near fine in a near fine (short edge tear at the crown of the spine, age toning to rear panel and flap edges) dust jacket. ISBN: 039451470X. . ( more information) Offered by Grendel Books, ABAA/ILAB (United States)
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Midnight's Children
Rushdie, Salman
Westminister, Maryland, U.S.A.: Alfred A. Knopf Inc, 1981. The copy has a line of yellowing along the top and bottom edges and a thin 1" stain to the rear board. The DJ has occasional light soil, general yellowing; its top edge is dotted with tiny chips and has one 2" tear with a small network of creases extending from it. . First Edition. Hardcover. VG/VG-. Large 8vo. ( more information) Offered by Reed Orenstein Rare Books (United States)
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Midnight's Children
Rushdie, Salman
New York: Knopf, 1981 Three tiny bumps top edge of rear boards, Else Fine in As New dustjacket, with none of the spine fading as is often seen with this book. Booker Prize winner, and voted the "Booker of Bookers". His 2nd book.. First American Edition. Hard Cover. Very Near Fine/As New. ( more information) Offered by Dale Steffey Books (United States)
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