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30 de jan. de 2021 · Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children. Midnight’s Children (1980) is a masterpiece. It has brought prestigious Booker Award to the author and other prizes also. It has been translated into twelve languages and deals with incidents of Pre and Post independence era of Indian Sub-continent. It covers issues of politics, religion and fanaticism.
Midnight's children for Zafar Rushdie who, contrary to all expectations, was born in the afternoon Book One The perforated sheet I was born in the city of Bombay… once upon a time. No, that won't do, there's no getting away from the date: I was born in Doctor Narlikar's Nursing Home on August 15th, 1947. And the time? The time matters, too.
31 de dez. de 2010 · Audio CD. $32.99 1 Used from $29.00 2 New from $32.99. Winner of the Booker prize and twice winner of the Booker of Bookers, Midnight's Children is "one of the most important books to come out of the English-speaking world in this generation" (New York Review of Books). Reissued for the 40th anniversary of the original publication--with a new ...
Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children is a harsh critique of the gender-related power struggles of postcolonial Indian society. After generations of purdah —the belief that Muslim and Hindu women should live separately from society, behind a curtain or veil, to stay out of the sight of men—postcolonial women are encouraged to become ...
23 de jul. de 2010 · Midnight's Children Kindle Edition. Midnight's Children. Kindle Edition. 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.
Midnight's Children is not at all a fast read; it actually walks the line of being unpleasantly the opposite. The prose is dense and initially frustrating in a way that seems almost deliberate, with repeated instances of the narrator rambling ahead to a point that he feels is important--but then, before revealing anything of importance, deciding that things ought to come in their proper order.
