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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很好很满意,活动价实惠。。。
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人人文库版,精装,很不错!慢慢看!
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在发生过的事件与记忆、文字叙述之间的暧昧地带,拉什迪用文学来为近代印度塑造了一块坚实的纪念碑,它的尺寸和重量完全可以媲美任何一位伟大作家曾经树立过的纪念物。
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这本书只用了具有神开辟天地的恢弘气势的前两节就让我激动不已,看完第一部的时候我已经将拉什迪拥戴到那些让我崇敬的伟大作家行列之中,而读罢厚达600页(繁体中文)的全书后,确认这位在孟买度过童年、在英国成长起来的作家心中装着整个印度,外加世界文学的最丰厚遗产,且不止于此。
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鲁西迪的代表作,很经典
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书是极好的,这一系列的都很喜欢,准备收集
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三年前讀過,買來收藏,但沒有塑封,封面有點髒
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拉什迪的《午夜的孩子》是一部以魔幻现实主义手法写成的现代文学经典之作。首先,这部作品的总构想就是一个出人意料的奇思怪想:在印度同一时刻降生的1001个孩子,能够在一个人的心灵中每夜聚会,这个会议于是成了现代印度的一面镜子。这个基本构想足以造就一部杰作,因为它不仅给了读者一个新奇的意象,而且赋予《午夜的孩子》以史诗般广阔的画面,使读者得以从多个视角认识印度社会。作者以自由飞腾的想象力,通过一个人的命运来审视一个民族的历史,使作品具有丰富的社会内容和深刻的思想内容。