by Salman Rushdie · Random House · tapa dura · ISBN 9788439721796
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«Hijos de la medianoche» is the magic realist novel by Salman Rushdie, published by Random House in hardcover (656 pages, in Spanish).
Born in Bombay at the moment India gains independence, Saleem Sinai believes his destiny is tied to that of his country and narrates his life and that of his family amid episodes of Indian political history. The work combines magic realism, humor and social criticism to address uprootedness and identity.
The original title is Midnight's Children, with Spanish translation by Miguel Sáenz. Winner of the Booker Prize, the Booker of Bookers and the Best of the Booker.
A work for readers of contemporary fiction and magic realism, with an interest in Indian literature and in stories that unite the personal and the political.
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.
