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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京东的书很好,以后还会买的
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很不错的卖家,以后还会继续支持,加油~~
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书好版本好价格好
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对迟子建的尊敬来自10年前阅读她那部《向着白夜旅行》时的体验。作为一名东北人,确切地说是黑龙江人,那是我第一次透过文字感受到了这片土地的厚重和风情。后来又陆续读到迟子建的其他作品,我开始怀疑自己是否有足够的理由公开我的地域属性。跟同样是黑龙江人的迟子建相比,我对黑龙江的陌生竟然犹如擦肩而过的路人。
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精挑细选的书,经典作品,非常不错,值得购买。
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萨曼·拉什迪于1948年在印度出生,后在英国长大,2000年定居纽约。他出身于穆斯林家庭,后来为了迎合西方主流观点写了一系列讽刺穆斯林的小说,获得很大的声誉,他的小说代表作有:1981年获英国布克奖的《午夜的孩子》、1989年初出版并引起轩然大波的《撒旦诗篇》和1996年的《摩尔人最后的叹息》等。英籍印度裔小说家,因1989年伊朗宗教领袖霍梅尼声称其小说《撒旦诗篇》侮辱穆斯林而判其死刑,此举一时成为国际争议的中心。拉什迪1947年出生于印度孟买的一个穆斯林富商家庭,13岁时移居美国,
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萨尔曼•鲁西迪 Salman Rushdie