Midnight's Children
Author(s): Salman Rushdie
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.
General Information
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- : Everyman
- : Everyman's Library
- : 0.666
- : 01 September 1995
- : 210mm X 35mm X 133mm
- : United Kingdom
- : books
Other Specifications
- : Salman Rushdie
- : Hardback
- : New ed
- : 823.914
- : 589
More About The Product
Winner of Booker of Bookers 1993 and James Tait Black Memorial Prize (Fiction) 1981 and Booker Prize for Fiction 1981. Runner-up for The BBC Big Read Top 100 2003. Shortlisted for Best of the Booker 2008 and BBC Big Read Top 100 2003.
Sir Salman Rushdie has received many awards for his writing, including the European Union's Aristeion Prize for Literature. He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres. In 1993 Midnight's Children was judged to be the 'Booker of Bookers', the best novel to have won the Booker Prize in its first 25 years. In June 2007 he received a knighthood in the Queen's Birthday Honours.