Author: Salman Rushdie
Translator: Jin-joon Kim
Publisher: Munhakdongne
2-vol. set | Hardcover | 203*137mm
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About This Book
Winner of the Booker of Bookers
Saleem Sinai is born at the stroke of midnight on August 15, 1947,
the very moment of India’s independence. Greeted by fireworks displays,
cheering crowds, and Prime Minister Nehru himself, Saleem grows up to
learn the ominous consequences of this coincidence. His every act is
mirrored and magnified in events that sway the course of national
affairs; his health and well-being are inextricably bound to those of
his nation; his life is inseparable, at times indistinguishable, from
the history of his country. Perhaps most remarkable are the telepathic
powers linking him with India’s 1,000 other “midnight’s children,” all
born in that initial hour and endowed with magical gifts.
This novel is at once a fascinating family saga and an astonishing
evocation of a vast land and its people–a brilliant incarnation of the
universal human comedy. Twenty-five years after its publication,
Midnight’s Children stands apart as both an epochal work of fiction and
a brilliant performance by one of the great literary voices of our time.
About the Author
Salman Rushdie was born in 1947 and has lived in England since 1961. He
is the author of six novels: Grimus, Midnight’s Children, which won the
Booker Prize in 1981 and the James Tait Black Prize, Shame, winner of
the French Prix du Meilleur Livre Etranger, The Satanic Verses, which
won the Whitbread Prize for Best Novel, Haroun and the Sea of Stories,
which won the Writers’ Guild Award and The Moor’s Last Sigh which won
the Whitbread Novel of the Year Award. He has also published a
collection of short stories East, West, a book of reportage The Jaguar
Smile, a volume of essays Imaginary Homelands and a work of film
criticism The Wizard of Oz. His most recent novel is The Ground Beneath
Her Feet, which was published in 1999.
Salman Rushdie was awarded Germany’s Author of the Year Award for his
novel The Satanic Verses in 1989. In 1993, Midnight’s Children was voted
the ‘Booker of Bookers’, the best novel to have won the Booker Prize in
its first 25 years. In the same year, he was awarded the Austrian State
Prize for European Literature. He is also Honorary Professor in the
Humanities at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a Fellow of
the Royal Society of Literature. His books have been published in more
than two dozen languages.
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