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| Title | : | Midnight's Children |
| Author | : | Salman Rushdie |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | New Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 647 pages |
| Published | : | May 1st 1995 by Vintage (first published 1981) |
| Categories | : | Classics. Fiction. Young Adult. Animals |
Salman Rushdie
Paperback | Pages: 647 pages Rating: 3.98 | 100099 Users | 6022 Reviews
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Saleem Sinai was born at midnight, the midnight of India's independence, and found 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 ear and wildly sensitive sense of smell—we are drawn into a fascinating family saga set against the vast, colourful background of the India of the 20th century.
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| Original Title: | Midnight's Children |
| ISBN: | 0099578514 (ISBN13: 9780099578512) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | Saleem Sinai |
| Setting: | India Pakistan |
| Literary Awards: | Booker Prize (1981), James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction (1981), The Booker of Bookers Prize (1993), The Best of the Booker (2008), Премія імені Максима Рильського (2010) |
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Ratings: 3.98 From 100099 Users | 6022 ReviewsAssess Of Books Midnight's Children
What's real and what's true aren't necessarily the same. Discard skepticism as you approach this epic. Suspend disbelief. Because myth and truth blend into each other imperfectly to spin a gossamer-fine web of reality on which the nation state is balanced precariously. And we, the legatees of this yarn, are caught up in a surrealist farce which plays out interminably in this land of heat and dust and many smells, our rational selves perennially clashing with our shallow beliefs but eventuallyLife is simply too short (and this book, far too long).So, Merry Christmas to myself! Robin, you don't have to finish reading this endless, labyrinthine mess tangle. Putting the book down does not mean it "beat" you. It doesn't say anything definitively bad about you, as a reader. It just means that there is limited time on this earth and other great books are calling your name. Books that don't make your eyes cross and furrow your brow in exasperation and frustration. Mr. Rushdie, it's not me,
Midnights Children did not quite live up to my expectations, which were set very high by the books reputation. Its a complex, messy novel; colourful, filled with a blend of fantasy and possibility, and a mood that is at once hopeful and resigned. It presents history as memory and story rather than settled fact, and beautifully weaves the human with the epic and the mythic.I did appreciate the central metaphor and structure: the expression of the birth and growth of a nation through that of its
Update:Just back from watching the movie and.... well... it kind of highlights the less great parts of the book, just because it's a movie. You notice the non-plot, you notice that the characters get dragged around from India to Pakistan to Bangladesh depending which big political event or war is happening as we make our way from 1947 to 1977; and we really notice how gushingly sentimental it all turns out in the end. All of these problems are there in the book but are melted, dissolved, and
Have you ever been to a Hindu temple? Its a riotous mass of orange, blue, purple, red, and green. Its walls seethe with deities. In one corner, Ganesha--the god with a human body and elephant head--sits on his vehicle, a rat. In another, a blue Krishna sits on a cow wooing cow girls by playing his flute. Durgha wearing a necklace of skulls kills a demon in another corner. Jasmine-decorated devotees stand around chanting. The press of people, the incense and the noise all combine and you lose
I tried tackling this "sacred monster" of a book twenty years ago, and I was defeated - neither my English skills, nor my cultural background were up to the task, and I had to return it to the library only a third of the way in. In a way I'm glad I've waited so long to come back, because Midnight's Children is still a difficult book, but worth all the effort on my part and all the critical praise it received from the Booker Prize crowd.It was from the start a most ambitious project - the Indian
Who what am I? My answer: I am the sum total of everything that went before me, of all I have been seen done, of everything done-to-me. I am everyone everything whose being-in-the-world affected was affected by mine. I am anything that happens after Ive gone which would not have happened if I had not come.Living different ways of grasping the meaning of man and the world should offer a deeper perspective than the usual reductionism that we oftentimes subject cultures that diverge from our own,
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