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Salman Rushdie - Midnight's Children, E-bok

E-bok, Engelska, 2010

Midnight's Children

The iconic Booker-prize winning novel

Av Salman Rushdie

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'A wonderful, rich and humane novel... a classic' GuardianBorn at the stroke of midnight at the exact moment of India's independence, Saleem Sinai is a special child.However, this coincidence of birth has consequences he is not prepared for: telepathic powers connect him with 1,000 other 'midnight's children' all of whom are endowed with unusual gifts. Inextricably linked to his nation, Saleem's story is a whirlwind of disasters and triumphs that mirrors the course of modern India at its most impossible and glorious.*WINNER OF THE BOOKER AND BEST OF THE BOOKER PRIZE***A BBC BETWEEN THE COVERS BIG JUBILEE READ PICK**WITH A NEW 40TH ANNIVERSARY INTRODUCTION BY THE AUTHOR
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  • Utgivningsdatum: 2010-09-07
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Filformat: EPUB
  • Kopieringsskydd: LCP
  • ISBN: 9781409028482
  • Förlag: Vintage Publishing
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Salman Rushdie is one of the world’s most acclaimed, award-winning contemporary authors. Translated into over forty languages, his sixteen works of fiction include Midnight’s Children – for which he won the Booker Prize in 1981, the Booker of Bookers on the 25th anniversary of the prize and Best of the Booker on the 40th anniversary – Shame, The Satanic Verses, Quichotte and Victory City. His latest book, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder was a number one Sunday Times bestseller. A former president of PEN American Center, Rushdie was knighted in 2007 for services to literature and was made a Companion of Honour in the Queen's last Birthday Honours list in 2022.

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"'Salman Rushdie has earned the right to be called one of our great storytellers.' Observer" "'Huge, vital, engrossing... in all senses a fantastic book.' Sunday Times" "'The literary map of India has been redrawn... Midnight's Children sounds like a country finding its voice.' New York Times" "'A brilliant and endearing novel.' London Review of Books"

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