00000nam a2200000 a 4500 Rushdie, Salman aut Verfasser/-in Indien / Geschichte Postkolonialismus Magischer Realismus Midnight's Children Rushdie, Salman New York A.A. Knopf 1995 Everyman's Library 217 Saleem Sinai, the hero of Midnight’s Children, is one of the thousand and one children born in India at the moment of its independence from British rule – the moment, in the words of its first Prime Minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, when India had her ‘tryst with destiny’. The twists and turns of this destiny form the springboard from which Salman Rushdie launches into his celebrated fantasia of our modernity. At once a fairy tale, a furious political satire, and a meditation on the ways in which time and change both shape and are shaped by the life of a single individual, Midnight’s Children announced the triumphant return of epic storytelling to our highly evolved literary tradition. Midnight’s Children was voted Booker of Bookers in 1993 and 2008. 9781857152173 9781857152173 eng 217 Band 589 Seiten