内容简介
This is a history of India since independence, seen through the eyes of characters born on the day that independence was granted. The book is a multi-layered narrative, in which the complexities of the sub-continent are projected through the minds of its many characters.
作者简介
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 Aristelon Prize for Literature in 1996. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and a Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres.
精彩书评
"Allegorical novel by Salman Rushdie, published in 1981. It is a historical chronicle of modern India centering on the inextricably linked fates of two children born within the first hour of independence from Great Britain. Exactly at midnight on Aug. 15, 1947, two boys are born in a Bombay hospital, where they are switched by a nurse. Saleem Sinai, who will be raised by a well-to-do Muslim couple, is actually the illegitimate son of a low-caste Hindu woman and a departing British colonist. Shiva, the son of the Muslim couple, is given to a poor Hindu street performer whose unfaithful wife has died. Saleem represents modern India. When he is 30, he writes his memoir, Midnight's Children. Shiva is destined to be Saleem's enemy as well as India's most honored war hero. This multilayered novel places Saleem in every significant event that occurred on the Indian subcontinent in the 30 years after independence. Midnight's Children was awarded the Booker Prize for fiction in 1981."
-- The Merriam-Webster Encyclopedia of Literature
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《午夜的子》所以会受到广泛的好评,成为二十世纪的经典,一是因为其题材独特,场面恢宏。它以印度次大陆为背景,内容涉及到印巴分治前后的政治动乱、社会变革、宗教纠纷等复杂的现象;拉什迪以文学的语言再现了这段历史的内涵,通过一个家族的故事和一个人的遭遇折射出这个“后殖民”的时代。二是作者的想象力丰富,他突破了关于小说形式的传统观念,将现实虚构、小说和历史糅合在一起,在现实的社会政治讽刺中,加入了奇特的幻想,把神话、寓言、通俗文化、社会现实和历史事件结合在一起,情节曲折多变,读性非常强。
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Booker中的Booker奖, 一定很精彩.
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从包装质量到内容质量都没得说,布克奖中的布克奖
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萨尔曼•鲁西迪 Salman Rushdie
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很好很满意,活动价实惠。。。
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本书适合外国文学原版书读者。人人文库的萨尔曼拉什迪的名作,午夜的孩子。装帧精美,可读可藏。
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拉什迪的作品,人人文库。《匹克威克外传》是十九世纪英国最重要的作家狄更斯的成名作,1836年出版。是一部流浪汉小说体裁的作品,全书通过匹克威克及其三位朋友外出旅行途中的一系列遭遇,描写了当时英国城乡的社会生活和风土人情。该书是狄更斯最为重要、最具代表性的作品之一,自出版以来,一直受到各国读者的欢迎,无可争辩地成为世界文学的经典名作。《匹克威克外传》是狄更斯的第一部长篇小说,写老绅士匹克威克一行五人到英国各地漫游的故事。小说情节以匹克威克等人在旅途的见闻和遭遇展开,一些故事虽然有相对的独立性,但是故事的进展又能自然地衔接起来,散而不乱,线索明了。
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活动的时候收的,书的品相不好。