Midnight's Children

Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie, KBE (English pronunciation: /sælˈmɑːn ˈrʊʃdi/[1]; born 19 June 1947) is a British-Indian novelist and essayist. He achieved notability with his second novel, Midnight's Children (1981), which won the Booker Prize in 1981. Much of his fiction is set on the Indian subcontinent. His style is often classified as magical realism mixed with historical fiction, and a dominant theme of his work is the story of the many connections, disruptions and migrations between the Eastern and Western world.His fourth novel, The Satanic Verses (1988), was the centre of The Satanic Verses controversy, with protests from Muslims in several countries. Some of the protests were violent, with Rushdie facing death threats and a fatwā issued by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the Supreme Leader of Iran, in February 1989.He was appointed a Knight Bachelor by Queen Elizabeth II for "services to literature" in June 2007.[2] He holds the rank Commandeur in the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres of France. He began a five-year term as Distinguished Writer in Residence at Emory University in 2007.[3] In May 2008 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters. In 2008, The Times ranked Rushdie thirteenth on their list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945".[4] His latest novel is The Enchantress of Florence, published in June 2008.[5]

出版者:Vintage

作者:SALMAN RUSHDIE

页数:672

出版时间:1995-5-18

价格:GBP 9.99

装帧:Paperback

isbn号码:9780099578512

图书标签:印度英文原版小说Rushdie文学Salman_Rushdie魔幻现实英国文学

Saleem Sinai was born at midnight, the midnight of India's independence, and found himself mysteriously 'handcuffed to history' by the coincidence. He is one of 1,001 children born at the midnight hour, each of them endowed with an extraordinary talent - and whose privilege and curse it is to be both master and victims of their times. Through Saleem's gifts - inner ear and wildly sensitive sense of smell - we are drawn into a fascinating family saga set against the vast, colourful background of the India of the 20th century.

读后感

对于中国人来说，世界上大部分地区的人都很好理解，或者说，大部分中国知识分子，对其他地区的人都有一种固有的形象，以至于一提起就让人心生好感/恶感。这种一一对应关系除了大家都不甚了了的黑非洲和亚马逊丛林，仅有印度作为一个得到现代文明承认的文明国家/地区例外。 原因...  

《午夜之子》中的“窟窿” 内容摘要：《午夜之子》是英籍印度裔作家萨尔曼拉什迪的长篇小说，该书一经出版，便获得英国最高文学奖布克奖。作者萨尔曼拉什迪于1948年在印度一个穆斯林家庭中出生，但却在英国长大，他自身的生活经历，再加上印度被殖民的历史，使得他的作品往往涉...

◎鲁茫 未能免俗。几乎也是一气呵成看完了《午夜之子》。已经很久没有这种状态，因为太多的未完成排队似的摆在书架上。也许我该先吐槽，在九月买书买得太多，即使在这个亢奋之月的最后一个晚上，京东又让我“背叛”了自己一次，同时再次告诫自己：最后一次了，绝不能再有“剁...  

用户评价

overrated

非常精巧的小说，好像一碰就会碎的结构和叙事。这书要是中国人写的我肯定特喜欢，关键问题是我一点印度历史和文化都不懂，隔膜很深。

10.20-11.13| mesmerizing at times wonder if there's some unreliable narrator inside the magical realism not that it matters

overrated

A three-week non-stop reading. Mesmerizing and magnificent. Salman Rushdie is a master of storytelling.