Salman Rushdie's Midnight's children / adapted for the theatre by Salman Rushdie, Simon Reade and Tim Supple.

By:

Rushdie, Salman

Contributor(s):

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York : Modern Library, [Vintage 1995].Edition: Modern Library pbk. edDescription: 463 p. ; 21 cmISBN:

9780099578512

Uniform titles:

Midnight's children

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DDC classification:

823.914 R952m 1995 20

LOC classification:

PR6068.U757 M5 2003

Review: "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.".Summary: "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.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Copy number	Status	Barcode
Books	Premier University DELL Library	823.914 R952m 1995	1	Available	10387
Books	Premier University DELL Library	823.914 R952m 1995	3	Available	10389
Books	Premier University Central Library	823.914 R952m 1995	2	Available	10388

Stage adaptation of Rushdie's novel Midnight's children.

"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.

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