Midnight's Children
About this book
Midnight's Children is a 1981 novel by author Salman Rushdie. It portrays India's transition from British colonial rule to independence and the partition of India. It is considered an example of postcolonial, postmodern, and magical realist literature. The story is told by its chief protagonist, Saleem Sinai, and is set in the context of actual historical events. The style of preserving history with fictional accounts is self-reflexive.
Midnight's Children won both the Booker Prize and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize in 1981. It was awarded the "Booker of Bookers" Prize and the best all-time prize winners in 1993 and 2008 to celebrate the Booker Prize 25th and 40th anniversary.In 2003, the novel was listed on the BBC's The Big Read poll of the UK's "best-loved novels". It was also added to the list of Great Books of the 20th Century, published by Penguin Books.
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Subjects
- award:man_booker_prize=1981
- british colonialism
- children of the rich
- english literature
- epic fiction
- epic literature
- ficción
- fiction
- fiction, general
- genios
- german fiction
- hinduism
- hinduismo
- history
- india, fiction
- infantes cambiados al nacer
- infants switched at birth
- interfaith relations
- islam
- islamismo
- jinn
- literary fiction
- magia
- magic
- magical realism
- man booker prize winner
- nin os de los ricos
- nin os lactantes
- nin os pobres
- niños pobres
- novel
- novela
- paranormal fiction
- partition of india
- poor children
- postcolonial literature
- reading level-grade 10
- reading level-grade 11
- reading level-grade 12
- reading level-grade 7
- reading level-grade 8
- reading level-grade 9
- relaciones
- relations
- rushdie, salman - prose & criticism
- sobrenatural
- spanish: adult fiction
- supernatural
- telepathy
- translations from english