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Midnight's Children

A Novel

A Novel

By Salman Rushdie

By Salman Rushdie

By Salman Rushdie
Introduction by Anita Desai

By Salman Rushdie
Introduction by Anita Desai

By Salman Rushdie

By Salman Rushdie

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Part of Modern Library 100 Best Novels

Part of Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Series

Part of Modern Library 100 Best Novels

Paperback $18.00

Apr 04, 2006 | ISBN 9780812976533

Hardcover $28.00

Oct 17, 1995 | ISBN 9780679444626

Ebook $13.99

Aug 26, 2010 | ISBN 9780307744111

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    About Midnight’s Children

    The iconic masterpiece of India that introduced the world to “a glittering novelist—one with startling imaginative and intellectual resources, a master of perpetual storytelling” (The New Yorker)

    WINNER OF THE BEST OF THE BOOKERS • SOON TO BE A NETFLIX ORIGINAL SERIES

    Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time • The fortieth anniversary edition, featuring a new introduction by the author

    Saleem Sinai is born at the stroke of midnight on August 15, 1947, the very moment of India’s independence. Greeted by fireworks displays, cheering crowds, and Prime Minister Nehru himself, Saleem grows up to learn the ominous consequences of this coincidence. His every act is mirrored and magnified in events that sway the course of national affairs; his health and well-being are inextricably bound to those of his nation; his life is inseparable, at times indistinguishable, from the history of his country. Perhaps most remarkable are the telepathic powers linking him with India’s 1,000 other “midnight’s children,” all born in that initial hour and endowed with magical gifts.

    This novel is at once a fascinating family saga and an astonishing evocation of a vast land and its people–a brilliant incarnation of the universal human comedy. Forty years after its publication, Midnight’s Children stands apart as both an epochal work of fiction and a brilliant performance by one of the great literary voices of our time.

    About Midnight’s Children

    A classic novel, in which the man who calls himself the “bomb of Bombay” chronicles the story of a child and a nation that both came into existence in 1947—and examines a whole people’s capacity for carrying inherited myths and inventing new ones.

    About Midnight’s Children

    The iconic masterpiece of India that introduced the world to “a glittering novelist—one with startling imaginative and intellectual resources, a master of perpetual storytelling” (The New Yorker)

    WINNER OF THE BEST OF THE BOOKERS • SOON TO BE A NETFLIX ORIGINAL SERIES

    Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time • The fortieth anniversary edition, featuring a new introduction by the author

    Saleem Sinai is born at the stroke of midnight on August 15, 1947, the very moment of India’s independence. Greeted by fireworks displays, cheering crowds, and Prime Minister Nehru himself, Saleem grows up to learn the ominous consequences of this coincidence. His every act is mirrored and magnified in events that sway the course of national affairs; his health and well-being are inextricably bound to those of his nation; his life is inseparable, at times indistinguishable, from the history of his country. Perhaps most remarkable are the telepathic powers linking him with India’s 1,000 other “midnight’s children,” all born in that initial hour and endowed with magical gifts.

    This novel is at once a fascinating family saga and an astonishing evocation of a vast land and its people–a brilliant incarnation of the universal human comedy. Forty years after its publication, Midnight’s Children stands apart as both an epochal work of fiction and a brilliant performance by one of the great literary voices of our time.

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    About Salman Rushdie

    Salman Rushdie is the author of fourteen novels—including Luka and the Fire of Life; Grimus; Midnight’s Children (for which he won the Booker Prize and the Best of the Booker); Shame; The Satanic Verses; Haroun and the Sea of Stories; The Moor’s Last Sigh; The Ground Beneath… More about Salman Rushdie

    About Salman Rushdie

    Salman Rushdie is the author of fourteen novels—including Luka and the Fire of Life; Grimus; Midnight’s Children (for which he won the Booker Prize and the Best of the Booker); Shame; The Satanic Verses; Haroun and the Sea of Stories; The Moor’s Last Sigh; The Ground Beneath… More about Salman Rushdie

    About Salman Rushdie

    Salman Rushdie is the author of fourteen novels—including Luka and the Fire of Life; Grimus; Midnight’s Children (for which he won the Booker Prize and the Best of the Booker); Shame; The Satanic Verses; Haroun and the Sea of Stories; The Moor’s Last Sigh; The Ground Beneath… More about Salman Rushdie

    Product Details

    Category: Literary Fiction

    Paperback | $18.00
    Published by Random House Trade Paperbacks
    Apr 04, 2006 | 560 Pages | 5-3/16 x 8 | ISBN 9780812976533

    Category: Literary Fiction | Fiction Classics

    Hardcover | $28.00
    Published by Everyman’s Library
    Oct 17, 1995 | 632 Pages | 5 x 8 | ISBN 9780679444626

    Category: Literary Fiction

    Ebook | $13.99
    Published by Random House
    Aug 26, 2010 | 560 Pages | ISBN 9780307744111

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    Praise

    “Extraordinary . . . one of the most important [novels] to come out of the English-speaking world in this generation.”
    –The New York Review of Books

    “The literary map of India is about to be redrawn. . . . Midnight’s Children sounds like a continent finding its voice.”
    –The New York Times

    “In Salman Rushdie, India has produced a glittering novelist– one with startling imaginative and intellectual resources, a master of perpetual storytelling.”
    –The New Yorker

    “A marvelous epic . . . Rushdie’s prose snaps into playback and flash-forward . . . stopping on images, vistas, and characters of unforgettable presence. Their range is as rich as India herself.”
    –Newsweek

    “Burgeons with life, with exuberance and fantasy . . . Rushdie is a writer of courage, impressive strength, and sheer stylistic brilliance.”
    –The Washington Post Book World

    “Pure story–an ebullient, wildly clowning, satirical, descriptively witty charge of energy.”
    –Chicago Sun-Times

    Awards

    Man Booker Prize WINNER 1981

    Author Essay

    One dusty summer evening in 1981 an extraordinary event took place in the sedate setting of India International Centre in New Delhi with its lawns, rose-beds and select circle of society members. A young writer from Britain with a Muslim name, whose second novel had just been published, gave a reading in the small auditorium that drew a crowd so unexpectedly large that it spilled out under the trees and loudspeakers had to be set up to broadcast his voice, a voice that everyone present recognized instantly as being the voice of a new age: strong, original and demanding of attention.

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