Midnight's Children
New York : A.A. Knopf, [1995]
Format: Book
Description: xxxi, 589 pages ; 21 cm.
From the Publisher: A classic novel, in which the man who calls himself the "bomb of Bombay" chronicles the story of a child and a nation that both came into existence in 1947-and examines a whole people's capacity for carrying inherited myths and inventing new ones.
Series: Everyman's library.
Contents:
Book One: Perforated sheet -- Mercurochrome -- Hit-the-spittoon -- Under the carpet -- Public announcement -- Many-headed monsters -- Methwold -- Tick, tock -- Book Two: Fisherman's pointing finger -- Snakes and ladders -- Accident in a washing-chest -- All-India radio -- Love in Bombay -- My tenth birthday -- At the pioneer cafe -- Alpha and Omega -- Kolynos kid -- Commander Sabarmati's baton -- Revelations -- Movements performed by Pepperpots -- Drainage and the desert -- Jamila Singer -- How Saleem achieved purity -- Book Three: Buddha -- In the Sundarbans -- Sam and the tiger -- Shadow of the mosque -- Wedding -- Midnight -- Abracadabra.
Subjects:
Infants switched at birth -- Fiction.
Islam -- Relations -- Hinduism -- Fiction.
Hinduism -- Relations -- Islam -- Fiction.
Children of the rich -- Fiction.
Poor children -- Fiction.
Paranormal fiction.
India -- Fiction.
Infants switched at birth -- Fiction.
Islam -- Relations -- Hinduism -- Fiction.
Hinduism -- Relations -- Islam -- Fiction.
Children of the rich -- Fiction.
Poor children -- Fiction.
Paranormal fiction.
India -- Fiction.
ISBN:
0679444629
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
F Rushdie | Main (Downtown) | Second Level, Fiction | Out (Due: 5/2/2024) |
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Includes bibliographical references (page xxiii).
Also issued online.
Man Booker Prize for Fiction, 1981.
Also issued online.
Man Booker Prize for Fiction, 1981.