Midnight's Children - Couverture rigide

Rushdie, Salman

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 022401823X ISBN 13 : 9780224018234

Editeur : Jonathan Cape Ltd, 1981

Synopsis

Midnight's Children

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time

Winner of the Booker of Bookers

Saleem Sinai is born at the stroke of midnight on August 15, 1947, the very moment of India’s independence. Greeted by fireworks displays, cheering crowds, and Prime Minister Nehru himself, 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 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 at once a fascinating family saga and an astonishing evocation of a vast land and its people–a brilliant incarnation of the universal human comedy. 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.

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

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Jonathan Cape Ltd
• Date d'édition: 1981
• ISBN 10: 022401823X
• ISBN 13: 9780224018234
• Reliure: Relié
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 446