by Salman Rushdie · Editorial Alfaguara · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788420423050
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«Hijos de la medianoche» is the magic realist novel by Salman Rushdie, published by Alfaguara in paperback (656 pages, in Spanish).
Saleem Sinai is born in Bombay at the stroke of midnight on August 15, 1947, as India gains independence. His life becomes bound to that of his country, and he shares a telepathic connection with other children born at that same hour. Through his story, the novel surveys the politics and history of postcolonial India with irony and magic realism.
Novel originally published in 1981 under the title Midnight's Children; winner of the Booker Prize in 1981 and the Best of the Booker in 2008. Translation by Miguel Sáenz.
For readers of contemporary fiction and magic realism, and for those wanting a long novel about the history of India with a political backdrop.
Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie is an Indian-born British and American novelist. His work often combines magical realism with historical fiction and primarily deals with connections, disruptions, and migrations between Eastern and Western civilizations, typically set on the Indian subcontinent. Rushdie's second novel, Midnight's Children (1981), won the Booker Prize in 1981 and was deemed to be "the best novel of all winners" on two occasions that marked the 25th and the 40th anniversary of the prize.
