Midnight's Children - (Modern Library 100 Best Novels) 25th Edition by Salman Rushdie (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b><b><b>The iconic masterpiece of India that introduced the world to "a glittering novelist--one with startling imaginative and intellectual resources, a master of perpetual storytelling" (<i>The New Yorker</i>)<br></b><br>WINNER OF THE BEST OF THE BOOKERS - SOON TO BE A NETFLIX ORIGINAL SERIES</b> <p/><b>Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time</b> <b>- The fortieth anniversary edition, featuring a new introduction by the author</b><br></b><br> 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. <p/> 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. Forty years after its publication, <i>Midnight's Children</i> stands apart as both an epochal work of fiction and a brilliant performance by one of the great literary voices of our time.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"Extraordinary . . . one of the most important [novels] to come out of the English-speaking world in this generation."<br>-The New York Review of Books <p/>"The literary map of India is about to be redrawn. . . . Midnight's Children sounds like a continent finding its voice."<br>-The New York Times <p/>"In Salman Rushdie, India has produced a glittering novelist- one with startling imaginative and intellectual resources, a master of perpetual storytelling."<br>-The New Yorker <p/>"A marvelous epic . . . Rushdie's prose snaps into playback and flash-forward . . . stopping on images, vistas, and characters of unforgettable presence. Their range is as rich as India herself."<br>-Newsweek <p/>"Burgeons with life, with exuberance and fantasy . . . Rushdie is a writer of courage, impressive strength, and sheer stylistic brilliance."<br>-The Washington Post Book World <p/>"Pure story-an ebullient, wildly clowning, satirical, descriptively witty charge of energy."<br>-Chicago Sun-Times<br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><p>SALMAN RUSHDIE is the author of fourteen novels--including <i>Luka and the Fire of Life</i>; <i>Grimus</i>; <i>Midnight's Children</i> (for which he won the Booker Prize and the Best of the Booker); <i>Shame; The Satanic Verses; Haroun and the Sea of Stories</i>; <i>The Moor's Last Sigh</i>; <i>The Ground Beneath Her Feet</i>; <i>Fury</i>; <i>Shalimar the Clown; The Enchantress of Florence</i>; <i>Two Years, Eight Months, and Twenty-Eight Nights</i>; <i>The Golden House</i>; and <i>Quichotte</i>--and one collection of short stories: <i>East, West</i>. He has also published four works of non-fiction--<i>Joseph Anton</i>, <i>The Jaguar Smile</i>, <i>Imaginary Homelands</i>, and <i>Step Across This Line</i>--and coedited two anthologies, <i>Mirrorwork </i>and <i>Best American Short Stories 2008</i>. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and a Distinguished Writer in Residence at New York University. A former president of PEN American Center, Rushdie was knighted in 2007 for services to literature.</p>
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