Midnight's Children: Introduction by Anita Desai

Midnight's Children: Introduction by Anita Desai

MIDNIGHTS CHILDREN

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1995/10/16
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The author of The Stananic Verses creates a fascinating family saga about the birth and maturity of a land and its people--a brilliant incarnation of the human comedy. "Rushdie has achieved a magnificent and unique work of fiction".--The Philadelphia Inquirer.

內容簡介

"BEST OF THE BOOKER" AWARD WINNER - This towering classic of international literature is at once a riveting family saga and an astonishing evocation of a vast land and its people.

"One of the most important books to come out of the English-speaking world in this generation." --The New York Review of Books

Saleem Sinai, the hero of Midnight's Children, is one of the thousand and one children born in India at the stroke of midnight on August 15, 1947, the dawn of its independence from British rule--the moment, in the words of its first prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, when India had her "'tryst with destiny.'" The twists and turns of this destiny form the springboard from which Salman Rushdie launches into his celebrated fantasia of our modernity.

At once a fairy tale, a furious political satire, and a meditation on the ways in which time and change both shape and are shaped by the life of a single individual, Midnight's Children announced the triumphant return of epic storytelling to our highly evolved literary tradition. With its central themes of displacement and indeterminacy, and its highly original use of a polyglot vocabulary absorbed form three distinct but overlapping cultures, this book anticipated and to a certain extent defined the multifarious, dislocated, ever-expanding world in which, increasingly, we all live.

Midnight's Children won the Booker Prize in 1981 and then in 2008 it was named "'The Best of the Booker, '" the best book to have won the prize in the forty years of its existence."

Everyman's Library pursues the highest production standards, printing on acid-free cream-colored paper, with full-cloth cases with two-color foil stamping, decorative endpapers, silk ribbon markers, European-style half-round spines, and a full-color illustrated jacket. Contemporary Classics include an introduction, a select bibliography, and a chronology of the author's life and times.
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得獎紀錄

Man Booker Prize | Winner | Novel | 1981-1981

作者介紹

SALMAN RUSHDIE was born in 1947 and has lived in England since 1961. He is the author of six novels: Grimus, Midnight's Children, which won the Booker Prize in 1981 and the James Tait Black Prize, Shame, winner of the French Prix du Meilleur Livre Etranger, The Satanic Verses, which won the Whitbread Prize for Best Novel, Haroun and the Sea of Stories, which won the Writers' Guild Award and The Moor's Last Sigh which won the Whitbread Novel of the Year Award. He has also published a collection of short stories East, West, a book of reportage The Jaguar Smile, a volume of essays Imaginary Homelands, and a work of film criticism The Wizard of Oz.

Salman Rushdie was awarded Germany's Author of the Year Award for his novel The Satanic Verses in 1989. In 1993, Midnight's Children was voted the "Booker of Bookers," the best novel to have won the Booker Prize in its first 25 years. In the same year, he was awarded the Austrian State Prize for European Literature. He is also Honorary Professor in the Humanities at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. His books have been published in more than two dozen languages.

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誠品貨碼 /
ISBN13 / 9780679444626
ISBN10 /
EAN貨碼 / 9780679444626
裝訂 / H:精裝
頁數 / 632
語言 / 3:英文
級別 / N:無
尺寸 / 21.2X14.1X3.5CM
重量(g) / 653.2

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