by Salman Rushdie · Vintage Classics · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780099511892
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«Midnight's Children» is the magic realist novel by Salman Rushdie, published by Vintage Classics in paperback (672 pages, in English).
Saleem Sinai is born at midnight on August 15, 1947, at the moment of India's independence. That birth endows him with telepathic powers that connect him to a thousand other children born in the same hour. His life runs in parallel with the history of his country, in a magic realist tale about postcolonial India.
Novel awarded the Booker Prize in 1981; this Vintage Classics edition was published in May 2008.
For readers of literary fiction interested in magic realism and the history of twentieth-century India.
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.
