Midnight's Children /
Rushdie, Salman, 1947- , author.
Midnight's Children / Salman Rushdie. - Vintage Canada edition. Enlarged by W. Ross Macdonald School. - Toronto : Vintage Canada. 1997, c1981. - 3 volumes (463 pages) : comb binding ; 38 cm
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.
0676970656
2006041736
Infants switched at birth--Fiction.
Islam--Relations--Hinduism--Fiction.
Hinduism--Relations--Islam--Fiction.
Children of the rich--Fiction.
India--Fiction.
Large type books.
FICTION / Magical Realism
FICTION / Fantasy / Historical
F RUS
Midnight's Children / Salman Rushdie. - Vintage Canada edition. Enlarged by W. Ross Macdonald School. - Toronto : Vintage Canada. 1997, c1981. - 3 volumes (463 pages) : comb binding ; 38 cm
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.
0676970656
2006041736
Infants switched at birth--Fiction.
Islam--Relations--Hinduism--Fiction.
Hinduism--Relations--Islam--Fiction.
Children of the rich--Fiction.
India--Fiction.
Large type books.
FICTION / Magical Realism
FICTION / Fantasy / Historical
F RUS