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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《匹克威克外传》在英国文学史上最主要的贡献是最早以当代现实生活为创作素材,并把平民当做小说的主人公。小说描写当时社会生活的各种场景,几乎描绘到当时社会上所有阶层的人物。本书语言幽默风趣,情节生动曲折,其中既有正义与邪恶的斗争,又有辛辣的政治讽刺;既有妙趣横生的民间故事,又有对社会阴暗面的无情揭露;作家既对上层社会的虚伪庸俗进行了猛烈的抨击,又对下层的穷苦百姓表现出深切的同情
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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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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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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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好书值得够买,十分推荐。
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《匹克威克外传》在英国文学史上最主要的贡献是最早以当代现实生活为创作素材,并把平民当做小说的主人公。小说描写当时社会生活的各种场景,几乎描绘到当时社会上所有阶层的人物。本书语言幽默风趣,情节生动曲折,其中既有正义与邪恶的斗争,又有辛辣的政治讽刺;既有妙趣横生的民间故事,又有对社会阴暗面的无情揭露;作家既对上层社会的虚伪庸俗进行了猛烈的抨击,又对下层的穷苦百姓表现出深切的同情
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没有塑封,无语,封面好脏。一大本书是布面靓装
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