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Midnight’s Children
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ISBN-13:
9780099511892
Veröffentl:
2008
Erscheinungsdatum:
01.05.2008
Seiten:
647
Autor:
Salman Rushdie
Gewicht:
495 g
Format:
198x130x38 mm
Serie:
Vintage Classics
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Salman Rushdie is the author of fifteen previous novels, including Midnight's Children (for which he won the Booker Prize and the Best of the Booker), The Satanic Verses, and Quichotte (which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize). A former president of PEN American Center, Rushdie was knighted in 2007 for services to literature and was made a Companion of Honour in the Queen's last Birthday Honours list in 2022.
'India has produced a great novelist...a master of perpetual storytelling' V.S. Pritchett, New Yorker
'A wonderful, rich and humane novel... a classic' Guardian
Born at the stroke of midnight at the exact moment of India's independence, Saleem Sinai is a special child.
However, this coincidence of birth has consequences he is not prepared for: telepathic powers connect him with 1,000 other 'midnight's children' all of whom are endowed with unusual gifts. Inextricably linked to his nation, Saleem's story is a whirlwind of disasters and triumphs that mirrors the course of modern India at its most impossible and glorious.
*WINNER OF THE BOOKER AND BEST OF THE BOOKER PRIZE*
**A BBC BETWEEN THE COVERS BIG JUBILEE READ PICK**
WITH A NEW 40TH ANNIVERSARY INTRODUCTION BY THE AUTHOR