Midnight's Children

Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext Salman Rushdie is the author of eight novels, one collection of short stories, and four works of non-fiction, and the co-editor of The Vintage Book of Indian Writing . In 1993 Midnight's Children was judged to be the 'Booker of Bookers', the best novel to have won the Booker Prize in its first 25 years. The Moor's Last Sigh won the Whitbread Prize in 1995, and the European Union's Aristeion Prize for Literature in 1996. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and a Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres. Zusammenfassung WITH A NEW 40TH ANNIVERSARY INTRODUCTION BY THE AUTHOR Born at the stroke of midnight at the exact moment of India's independence, Saleem Sinai is a special child.

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Totally different to anything I'd read before: hilarious at times, frustrating at times, exploring how history is linked into our lives, plus lots of metaphors about chutney Skinny

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Salman Rushdie, Rushdie Salman
• Editore: Vintage UK
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 01.05.2008
• EAN: 9780099511892
• ISBN: 978-0-09-951189-2
• Pagine: 672
• Dimensioni: 130 mm x 200 mm x 35 mm
• Serie: Vintage Classics; Vintage Classics New Look; Vintage Classics; Vintage Classics New Look
• Categorie: Narrativa > Romanzi; Narrativa > Romanzi > Letteratura contemporanea (dal 1945); FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Cultural Heritage, FICTION / Alternative History, 20th Century, India, Narrative theme: Social issues, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Narrative theme: Politics, Narrative theme: Sense of place, Modern and contemporary fiction, Religious and spiritual fiction