126 pages
English language
Published Nov. 19, 2003 by Modern Library.
Salman Rushdie's Midnight's children
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"In the moments of upheaval that surround the stroke of midnight on August 14-15, 1947, the day India proclaimed its independence from Great Britain, 1,001 children are born - each of whom is gifted with supernatural powers. Midnight's Children focuses on the fates of two of them - the illegitimate son of a poor Hindu woman and the male heir of a wealthy Muslim family - who become inextricably linked when a midwife switches the boys at birth.".
"An allegory of modern India, Midnight's Children is a family saga set against the volatile events of the thirty years following the country's independence - the partitioning of India and Pakistan, the rule of Indira Gandhi, the onset of violence and war, and the imposition of martial law. It is a magical and haunting tale, of fragmentation and of the struggle for identity and belonging that links personal life with national history."--BOOK …
"In the moments of upheaval that surround the stroke of midnight on August 14-15, 1947, the day India proclaimed its independence from Great Britain, 1,001 children are born - each of whom is gifted with supernatural powers. Midnight's Children focuses on the fates of two of them - the illegitimate son of a poor Hindu woman and the male heir of a wealthy Muslim family - who become inextricably linked when a midwife switches the boys at birth.".
"An allegory of modern India, Midnight's Children is a family saga set against the volatile events of the thirty years following the country's independence - the partitioning of India and Pakistan, the rule of Indira Gandhi, the onset of violence and war, and the imposition of martial law. It is a magical and haunting tale, of fragmentation and of the struggle for identity and belonging that links personal life with national history."--BOOK JACKET.
Subjects
- Infants switched at birth -- Drama.
- Islam -- Relations -- Hinduism -- Drama.
- Hinduism -- Relations -- Islam -- Drama.
- Children of the rich -- Drama.
- Poor children -- Drama.
- Supernatural -- Drama.
- India -- Drama.