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Title: Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie ISBN: 0-14-013270-8 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: April, 1995 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.25 (134 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: a ferociously charming tour of india
Comment: Midnight's Children is a long and sometimes arduous exercise in fantastical realism, a would-be folk tale about the history of India since its independence from Britain. The narrator's birth occurs at the exact moment of national independence, and from then on his life is something of an anthropomorphic mirror of the development of his nation.
This book is neither a fictional autobiography nor a literary history of modern India. Well, actually it's both, but really it's about the dangers of being ancient in a modern world, and the pitfalls of trying to bring tradition into a rational, contemporary framework.
Rushdie is one of the most eloquent writers of his generation, and inherits from Nabakov the role of linguistic perfectionist - every sentence is rolled up in allegory, wordplay, and, most importantly, meaningfullness.
Rating: 3
Summary: Not a fan of Rushdie, however...
Comment: Midnight's Children is certainly an interesting read, and I admire Rushdie's attempt at writing a very different type of novel. I will spare you the novel synopsis, as others have probably gone to great lengths to recap the story. Keep in mind, that the story does flip back and forth in the memories of the writer (which is different from Rusdie).
I didn't particularly like the Satanic Verses and I read this novel for a class on Expatriate Literature. As Expatriate Literature goes, this was a great exploration of the theme.
Well worth reading.
Rating: 4
Summary: A ...Trip into History
Comment: This is a book to take on vacation... or a book to read at home if you cannot afford a vacation! If you allow it, this book will completely pull you into it's pages and have you eating, sleeping, and dreaming it's story. Besides being an amazing book with a plot that twists more than Chubby Checker, it's to some extent a pocket history of India. Sadly, I wish I had read it as part of a literature, history or culture class to know and appreciate more of the story BEHIND the story.
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Title: The Satanic Verses : A Novel by Salman Rushdie ISBN: 0312270828 Publisher: Picador USA Pub. Date: 01 December, 2000 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy ISBN: 0060977493 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 01 May, 1998 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: The Moor's Last Sigh by Salman Rushdie ISBN: 0679744665 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 14 January, 1997 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Shame : A Novel by Salman Rushdie ISBN: 0312270933 Publisher: Picador USA Pub. Date: 01 December, 2000 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: A House for Mr. Biswas by V.S. Naipaul ISBN: 0375707166 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 13 March, 2001 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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