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Midnight's children, a novel, Salman Rushdie

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Midnight's children, a novel, Salman Rushdie

Language

eng

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no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

Midnight's children

Oclc number

6918806

Responsibility statement

Salman Rushdie

Sub title

a novel

Summary

"A classic novel, in which the man who calls himself the "bomb of Bombay" chronicles the story of a child and a nation that both came into existence in 1947-and examines a whole people's capacity for carrying inherited myths and inventing new ones."--From the publisherAt the stroke of midnight on August 15th, 1947, as India declares independence from Great Britain, two babies are switched at birth by a nurse in a Bombay hospital. And so it is that Saleem Sinai, the illegitimate child of a beggar woman, and Shiva, the only son of a wealthy couple, are fated to live the destinies meant for each other. Over the next three decades, Saleem and Shiva find themselves on opposite sides of many a conflict

Table Of Contents

Book One: The perforated sheet -- Mercurochrome -- Hit-the-spittoon -- Under the carpet -- A public announcement -- Many-headed monsters -- Methwold -- Tick, tock -- Book Two: The fisherman's pointing finger -- Snakes and ladders -- Accident in a washing-chest -- All-India radio -- Love in Bombay -- My tenth birthday -- At the pioneer cafe -- Alpha and Omega -- The Kolynos kid -- Commander Sabarmati's baton -- Revelations -- Movements performed by Pepperpots -- Drainage and the desert -- Jamila Singer -- How Saleem achieved purity -- Book Three: The Buddha -- In the Sundarbans -- Sam and the tiger -- The shadow of the mosque -- A wedding -- Midnight -- Abracadabra

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