Midnight's Children
de Rushdie, Salman.:
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Carlisle, United Kingdom
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Jonathan Cape, London, 1981 (1st edition). 446pp. Printed and bound in Pennsylvania. Binding design by Sara Reynolds. Ex library copy. Boards with cloth spine. Edges of boards worn and rubbed, spine scuffed and little marked. Edges of price clipped dust jacket scuffed and curling, 1 closed tear (2cms), spine faded. Dust jacket fits rather loosely around the book. Fore-edge of pages rough cut. Page edges generally soiled and fingered. Contents fingered and little marked. Library stamps on front free end paper which lacks lower right corner (1.5cms). Further library stamp on title page. A well used copy. 24x17cms.
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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- Midnight's Children
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- Rushdie, Salman.:
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- Jonathan Cape, London, 1981 (1st edition).
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- Title Page
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