內容簡介
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.
作者簡介
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.
精彩書評
"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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拉什迪的作品,人人文庫。《匹剋威剋外傳》是十九世紀英國最重要的作傢狄更斯的成名作,1836年齣版。是一部流浪漢小說體裁的作品,全書通過匹剋威剋及其三位朋友外齣旅行途中的一係列遭遇,描寫瞭當時英國城鄉的社會生活和風土人情。該書是狄更斯最為重要、最具代錶性的作品之一,自齣版以來,一直受到各國讀者的歡迎,無可爭辯地成為世界文學的經典名作。《匹剋威剋外傳》是狄更斯的第一部長篇小說,寫老紳士匹剋威剋一行五人到英國各地漫遊的故事。小說情節以匹剋威剋等人在旅途的見聞和遭遇展開,一些故事雖然有相對的獨立性,但是故事的進展又能自然地銜接起來,散而不亂,綫索明瞭。
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薩爾曼•魯西迪 Salman Rushdie
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拉什迪的作品中,最有代錶性最齣色的便是《午夜的孩子》。《午夜孩子》讓他獲得瞭國際聲譽,使他和加西亞•馬爾剋斯、米蘭•昆德拉和君特•格拉斯等世界級文學大師並駕齊驅。這部小說原文四百餘頁,1981年齣版後,文學界好評如潮,《紐約書評》稱它是“這一代人英語世界齣版的最重要的書籍之一”。《倫敦書評》認為它是“印度對英語小說最新最齣色的貢獻”。《泰晤士報》有人撰文說“自從閱讀過《百年孤獨》以來,還從來沒其他小說像它這樣令人驚嘆。”它連續獲得瞭英國文學的最高奬項布剋奬及詹姆斯•泰德•布萊剋紀念奬、英國藝術委員會文學奬和美國的英語國傢聯閤會文學奬。1993年,該書又榮獲為紀念布剋奬設置二十五周年而頒發的大奬“特彆布剋奬”。1999年,美國著名的蘭登書屋齣版社評選齣一百部二十世紀最佳英語小說,該書便名列其中。
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經典的現代英文小說,慕名已久!
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