Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie

Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie

A novel set in 20th century India, whose central character is a man born at the midnight of India's independence.

Knighted by Queen Elizabeth, named to the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in France and elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters, Sir Salman Rushdie is one of the foremost novelists of our time. Winner of the Booker Prize, the Best of the Bookers, and the Booker of Bookers, Rushdie ranks with the best writers of a generation.
The author of sixteen previous books, Rushdie is best known for his second novel, Midnight's Children, which launched him into fame, and The Satanic Verses, which touched off a storm of protest across the Muslim world and resulted in a fatwa issued by the Ayatollah Khomeini of Iran. These two novels together helped shape two themes that have come together to give form to his career. On one hand, he nearly single-handedly defined the shape that Indian novels written in English would take for decades. And on the other he became a symbol of enlightenment and free speech, defiant against the forces of intolerance and fundamentalist religion.
His books often tread a path that navigates these directions in his career. Fascinated both by the form of magic realism and the subject matter of post-colonialism, and by the experiences of various diasporas, Rushdie's works have an uncanny ability to tease the story out of people's sacred truths.
An international celebrity, Rushdie is often in the public eye, whether the focus is on his personal life or his political views. He is also Distinguished Writer-in-Residence at Emory University, and Midnight's Children has been adapted for a film version, to be shot by Canadian director Deepa Mehta.

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ISBN 13	9780224018234
ISBN 10	022401823X
Title	Midnight's Children
Author	Salman Rushdie
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Vintage Publishing
Year published	1981-04-23
Number of pages	446
Prizes	Winner of Booker of Bookers 1993, Winner of Booker Prize for Fiction 1981, Winner of James Tait Black Memorial Prize (Fiction) 1981, Short-listed for Best of the Booker 2008
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