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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但这些相似处,乃是作为前辈的遗产而非笼罩的阴影在拉什迪获得了炼金术般的转变。这不但包括从第三人称到第一人称的转换、一种讽刺性的语调——作为不肯屈服与沉重历史重压的反抗,或许与英语文学的传统有关?——不断介入到悲怆沉厚的基调中、以可见的谱系中第三代为焦点的叙事运动……更重要的是,拉什迪对整个现代文学和后现代文学的继承和扬起,简单说吧:他带着所有的技巧及其背后的历史观训练,回归到故事,以及,最重要的,对意义的追寻。
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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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英国作家拉什迪最有名的著作之一,当然,还有一本更著名的,但估计我们买不到。此书入选读者评选的100本英国人最爱读的书之一。因看到人人文库有此书,立马下单。呜呜,没赶上大活动。但估计碰到活动,咱就买不到了。感谢京东的努力。现在可能还是京东上人人文库的书最多,价格也最厚道。
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