Midnight's Children - Brossura

Rushdie, Salman

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0676970656 ISBN 13: 9780676970654

Casa editrice: Vintage, 1997

Riassunto

Saleem Sinai was born at midnight, the midnight of India's independence, and finds himself mysteriously 'handcuffed to history' by the coincidence. He is one of 1,001 children born at the midnight hour, each of them endowed with an extraordinary talent - and whose privilege and curse it is to be both master and victims of their times. Through Saleem's gifts - inner voices and a wildly sensitive sense of smell -- we are drawn into a fascinating family saga set against the vast, colourful background of the India of this century.

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Recensione

"Salman Rushdie has earned the right to be called one of our great storytellers." -- Observer

"Huge, vital, engrossing... in all senses a fantastic book." -- Sunday Times

"The literary map of India has been redrawn... Midnight's Children sounds like a country finding its voice." -- New York Times

"A brilliant and endearing novel." -- London Review of Books

L'autore

Salman Rushdie is the author of seven novels: Grimus, Midnight's Children (which was awarded the Booker Prize and the James Tait Black Prize), Shame (winnner of the French Prix du Meilleur Etranger), The Satanic Verses (winner of the Whitbread Prize for the Best First Novel), Haroun and the Sea of Stories (winner of the Writer's Guild Award), The Moor's Last Sigh (winner of the European Aristeion Prize for Literature) and The Ground Beneath Her Feet. He has also published a collection of short stories, East, West; a book of reportage, The Jaguar Smile: A Nicaraguan Journey; a volume of essays, Imaginary Homelands, and a work of film criticism, 'The Wizard of Oz'.

Salman Rushdie was awarded Germany's Author of the Year Award for his novel The Satanic Verses in 1989. In 1993, Midnight's Children was adjudged the 'Booker of Bookers', the nest novel to have won the Booker Prize in its first 25 years. In the same years he was awarded the Austrian State Prize for European Literature. He is also an Honorary Professor in Humanities at the Masschusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. His books have been published in more than two dozen languages.

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• Editore: Vintage
• Data di pubblicazione: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0676970656
• ISBN 13: 9780676970654
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 464