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MIDNIGHT'S CHILDREN
de Rushdie, Salman
- Usado
- Tapa dura
- First
- Estado
- VG+/VG
- ISBN 10
- 039451470X
- ISBN 13
- 9780394514703
- Librería
-
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Formas de pago aceptadas
Sobre este artículo
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1981. Rushdie's second book - winner of the Booker Prize, and recently selected as the "Booker of Bookers." First edition, second printing - published in the same month (April 1981)as the first printing. 446 pages in excellent, clean, white condition. Endpapers clean. Burgundy cloth over grey boards, silver titles. Very light sunning along the top and bottom edges. Corners lightly worn. Pink DJ with black/ burgundy titles. Price-clipped. Tiny chips along top edge, head/tail of spine. Spine slightly faded, and with two tiny nicks. Corners lightly worn. Binding nice and tight. VG+/VG. First Edition, Second Printing. Hard Cover. VG+/VG.
Sinopsis
Midnight's Children is an epic book of magical realism, a poioumenon about India's transition from British colonialism to independence. It was written by Salman Rushdie in 1981 and is considered an example of postcolonial literature. The story is expressed through various characters and is contexted by actual historical events as with historical fiction. Midnight's Children won both the 1981 Booker Prize and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for the same year.
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Detalles
- Librería
- J. Wyatt Books
(CA)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 204863
- Título
- MIDNIGHT'S CHILDREN
- Autor
- Rushdie, Salman
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - VG+
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- VG
- Edición
- First Edition, Second Printing
- ISBN 10
- 039451470X
- ISBN 13
- 9780394514703
- Editorial
- Alfred A. Knopf
- Lugar de publicación
- New York
- Fecha de publicación
- 1981
- Palabras clave
- Booker Prize, Rushdie, First Edition
Términos de venta
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Ottawa, Ontario
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- VG+/VG
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- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
