Midnight's Children - Couverture rigide

Rushdie, Salman

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1857152174 ISBN 13 : 9781857152173

Editeur : Everyman, 1995

Synopsis

This is a history of India since independence, seen through the eyes of characters born on the day that independence was granted. The book is a multi-layered narrative, in which the complexities of the sub-continent are projected through the minds of its many characters. "Midnight's Children" was voted in the Booker of Bookers in 1993.

A propos du livre

Quatrième de couverture :

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

Born at the stroke of midnight on August 15 1947, at the precise moment of India’s independence, the infant Saleem Sinai is celebrated in the press and welcomed by Prime Minister Nehru himself. But this coincidence of birth has consequences Saleem is not prepared for: telepathic powers that connect him with 1,000 other ‘midnight’s children’ – all born in the initial hour of India’s independence – and an uncanny sense of smell that allows him to sniff out dangers others cannot perceive.

Inextricably linked to his nation, Saleem’s biography is a whirlwind of disasters and triumphs that mirrors the course of modern India at its most impossible and glorious.

‘One of the most important books to come out of the English-speaking world in this generation’ New York Review of Books

‘A magnificent book and Salman Rushdie is a major novelist’ Observer

‘The literary map of India has to be redrawn... Midnight’s Children sounds like a continent finding its voice’ New York Times

Présentation de l'éditeur :

A history of India since independence seen through the eyes of characters born on that independence was granted. Often hailed as a classic of magic realism, this is a many-layered and entralling narrative in which the complexities of the sub-continent are projected through the minds of its many characters, comic, tragic and fantastic by turns, this is the novel which revolutionized English literature in one fell swoop. MIDNIGHT'S CHILDREN was voted in the Booker of Bookers in 1993.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Everyman
• Date d'édition: 1995
• ISBN 10: 1857152174
• ISBN 13: 9781857152173
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 589