Salman Rushdie

Midnight's Children

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Produktbeschreibung

'India has produced a great novelist...a master of perpetual storytelling' V.S. Pritchett, New Yorker

Born at the stroke of midnight, at the precise moment of India's independence, Saleem Sinai is destined from birth to be special. For he is one of 1,001 children born in the midnight hour, children who all have special gifts, children with whom Saleem is telepathically linked.

But there has been a terrible mix up at birth, and Saleem's life takes some unexpected twists and turns. As he grows up amidst a whirlwind of triumphs and disasters, Saleem must learn the ominous consequences of his gift, for the course of his life is inseparably linked to that of his motherland, and his every act is mirrored and magnified in the events that shape the newborn nation of India.
It is a great gift, and a terrible burden.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Random House UK / Vintage, London
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 601180
• 1995.
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Mai 1995
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 128mm x 40mm
• Gewicht: 480g
• ISBN-13: 9780099578512
• ISBN-10: 0099578514
• Artikelnr.: 20958728

Autorenporträt

Salman Rushdie is the author of fifteen previous novels, including Midnight's Children (for which he won the Booker Prize and the Best of the Booker), The Satanic Verses, and Quichotte (which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize). A former president of PEN American Center, Rushdie was knighted in 2007 for services to literature and was made a Companion of Honour in the Queen's last Birthday Honours list in 2022.

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Rezensionen

A wonderful, rich and humane novel that is safe to call a classic. Guardian