Midnight's Children (Movie Tie-in Edition): A Novel - Brossura

Rushdie, Salman

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ISBN 10: 0345807480 ISBN 13: 9780345807489

Casa editrice: Vintage Canada, 2012

Riassunto

Greeted by fireworks displays, cheering crowds, and Prime Minister Nehru himself, Saleem Sinai is born at the stroke of midnight on August 15, 1947, the very moment of India's independence. Saleem grows up to learn the ominous consequences of this coincidence. His every act is mirrored and magnified in events that sway the course of national affairs, his health and well-being are inextricably bound to those of his nation; his life is inseparable, at times indistinguishable, from the history of his country. Perhaps the most remarkable are the telepathic powers linking him with India's 1,000 other "midnight's children," all born in that initial hour and endowed with magical gifts.
 
This novel is an once a fascinating family saga and an astonishing evocation of a vast land and its people--a brilliant incarnation of the universal human comedy. Over twenty-five years after its publication, Midnight's Children stands apart as both an epochal work of fiction and a brilliant performance by one of the great literary voices of our time.

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"Rushdie has earned the right to be called one of our great storytellers."
—The Observer
 
"An extraordinary novel . . . one of the most important to come out of the English-speaking world in this generation."
—The New York Review of Books
 
"Burgeons with life, with exuberance and fantasy . . . Rushdie is a writer of courage, impressive strength, and sheer stylistic brilliance."
—The Washington Post Book World

L'autore

SALMAN RUSHDIE is the author of eleven novels--Grimus, Midnight's Children (for which he won the Booker Prize and the Best of the Booker), Shame, The Satanic Verses, Haroun and the Sea of Stories, The Moor's Last Sigh, The Ground Beneath Her Feet, Fury, Shalimar the Clown, The Enchantress of Florence, and Luka and the Fire of Life--and one collection of short stories: East, West. He has also published three works of nonfiction: The Jaguar Smile, Imaginary Homelands: Essays and Criticism 1981-1991, and Step Across This Line, and coedited two anthologies, Mirrorwork and Best American Short Stories 2008. He is a former president of American PEN.

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• Editore: Vintage Canada
• Data di pubblicazione: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0345807480
• ISBN 13: 9780345807489
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 560