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Midnight's children [a novel]

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  • "Anak-anak tengah malam"
  • "Midnight's children"@he
  • "Midnight's children"@it
  • "Midnight's children"@en
  • "Midnight's children"
  • "Midnight's children"@th
  • "Midnight's children"@pl
  • "Otroci polnoči I"@sl
  • "Midnight's children. Français"
  • "Aadhee rat kee santanain"
  • "Otroci polnoči II"@sl

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  • ""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."--"
  • "Ce très beau roman indien a obtenu le Booker Prize en 1981 (équivalent du Pulitzer ou du Goncourt). Chronique colorée qui a l'ambition (tenue) de faire revivre l'Inde de 1947 à nos jours. Une réussite tant au niveau de la narration torrentielle que de l'écriture incisive et nerveuse."
  • "Literature GuidesCreated by Harvard students for students everywhere, SparkNotes is a new breed of study guide: smarter, better, faster. Geared to what today's students need to know, SparkNotes provides: *Chapter-by-chapter analysis*Explanations of key themes, motifs, and symbols*A review quiz and essay topicsLively and accessible, these guides are perfect for late-night studying and writing papers."@en
  • "Ésta es la historia de Saleem Sinai, nacido en Bombay al filo de la medianoche del 15 de agosto de 1947, en el momento mismo en que la India, entre fuegos artificiales y multitudes, alcanza su independencia. El destino de Saleem queda inexorablemente unido al de su país, y sus peripecias personales reflejarán siempre la evolución política de la India o serán reflejadas por ella. Es la historia de un hombre dotado de facultades insólitas pero también la de una generación y la de una familia, lo que la convierte en un retrato completo de toda una época y una cultura. Ganadora del prestigioso premio Booker of Bookers, Hijos de la medianoche constituye una asombrosa novela que combina magistralmente magia y humor, compromiso politico fantasía y humanidad."
  • "The life of a man born at the moment of India's independence becomes inextricably linked to that of his nation and is a whirlwind of disasters and triumphs that mirror modern India's course, in a twenty-fifth anniversary edition of the Booker Prize-winning novel."@en
  • "The life of a man born at the moment of India's independence becomes inextricably linked to that of his nation and is a whirlwind of disasters and triumphs that mirror modern India's course, in a twenty-fifth anniversary edition of the Booker Prize-winning novel."
  • "Novel based on the partition of India in 1947."
  • "De lotgevallen van een welgestelde Indo-Pakistaanse moslimfamilie in de periode 1900-1975."
  • "De lotgevallen van een welgestelde Indo-Pakistaanse familie in de periode 1900-1975."
  • "The author of The Satanic Verses creates a fascinating family saga about the birth and maturity of a land and its people--a brilliant incarnation of the human comedy. "Rushdie has achieved a magnificent and unique work of fiction".--The Philadelphia Inquirer. Saleem Sinai was born at midnight, the midnight of India's independence, and finds 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 voices and a wildly sensitive sense of smell-we are drawn into a fascinating family saga set against the vast, colourful background of the India of this century."@en
  • "Weltbestseller und Meilenstein der Weltliteratur Am 15. August 1947, Schlag Mitternacht, wird Saleem Sinai geboren - begrüsst von Fanfaren und Feuerwerken, denn in genau diesem Moment erlangt Indien seine Unabhängigkeit. Fortan ist Saleems Leben untrennbar mit dem Schicksal des neugeborenen Staates verbunden. Und wie die eintausend anderen Mitternachtskinder, die in dieser Nacht das Licht der Welt erblicken, verfügt auch Saleem über eine besondere telepathische Gabe, die es ihm und dem Leser ermöglicht, in die faszinierende Geschichte seiner Familie einzutauchen - eine Saga vor dem Hintergrund der wechselhaften Geschichte Indiens im 20. Jahrhundert. Salman Rushdie, 1947 in Bombay geboren, studierte in Cambridge Geschichte. Mit seinem Roman "Mitternachtskinder" wurde er weltberühmt. Seine Bücher erhielten renommierte internationale Auszeichnungen, u.a. den Booker Prize, und sind in zahlreiche Sprachen übersetzt. 1996 wurde ihm der Aristeion-Literaturpreis der EU für sein Gesamtwerk zuerkannt. 2008 schlug ihn die Queen zum Ritter."
  • "The story of Saleem Sinal, born precisely at midnight, August 15, 1947, the moment India became independent. Saleem's life parallels the history of his nation."@en
  • "The story of Saleem Sinal, born precisely at midnight, August 15, 1947, the moment India became independent. Saleem's life parallels the history of his nation."
  • "The original stage adaptation of Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children, winner of the 1993 Booker of Bookers, the best book to win the Booker Prize in its first twenty-five years. In the moments of upheaval that surround the stroke of midnight on August 14--15, 1947, the day India proclaimed its independence from Great Britain, 1,001 children are born--each of whom is gifted with supernatural powers. Midnight's Children focuses on the fates of two of them--the illegitimate son of a poor Hindu woman and the male heir of a wealthy Muslim family--who become inextricably linked when a midwife switches the boys at birth. An allegory of modern India, Midnight's Children is a family saga set against the volatile events of the thirty years following the country's independence--the partitioning of India and Pakistan, the rule of Indira Gandhi, the onset of violence and war, and the imposition of martial law. It is a magical and haunting tale, of fragmentation and of the struggle for identity and belonging that links personal life with national history. In collaboration with Simon Reade, Tim Supple and the Royal Shakespeare Society, Salman Rushdie has adapted his masterpiece for the stage. From the Trade Paperback edition."@en
  • "The life of a man born at the moment of India's independence becomes inextricably linked to that of his nation and is a whirlwind of disasters and triumphs that mirror modern India's course."
  • "The author of The Satanic Verses creates a fascinating family saga about the birth and maturity of a land and its people--a brilliant incarnation of the human comedy. "Rushdie has achieved a magnificent and unique work of fiction".--The Philadelphia Inquirer."
  • "The author of The Satanic Verses creates a fascinating family saga about the birth and maturity of a land and its people--a brilliant incarnation of the human comedy. "Rushdie has achieved a magnificent and unique work of fiction".--The Philadelphia Inquirer."@en
  • "Winner of the Booker of BookersSaleem Sinai is born at the stroke of midnight on August 15, 1947, the very moment of India's independence. Greeted by fireworks displays, cheering crowds, and Prime Minister Nehru himself, Saleem grows up to learn the ominous consequences of this coincidence. His every act is mirrored and magnified in events that sway the course of national affairs; his health and well-being are inextricably bound to those of his nation; his life is inseparable, at times indistinguishable, from the history of his country. Perhaps most remarkable are the telepathic powers linking him with India's 1,000 other "midnight's children," all born in that initial hour and endowed with magical gifts. This novel is at once a fascinating family saga and an astonishing evocation of a vast land and its people--a brilliant incarnation of the universal human comedy. Twenty-five years after its publication, Midnight's Children stands apart as both an..."@en
  • "Saleem Sinai, the narrator of Midnight's Children, opens the novel by explaining that he was born on midnight, August 15, 1947, at the exact moment India gained its independence from British rule. Now nearing his thirty-first birthday, Saleem believes that his body is beginning to crack and fall apart. Fearing that his death is imminent, he grows anxious to tell his life story. Padma, his loyal and loving companion, serves as his patient, often skeptical audience."
  • "BORN AT THE STROKE OF MIDNIGHT ON AUGUST 15, 1947, AT THE PRECISE MOMENT OF INDIA'S INDEPENDENCE, THE INFANT SALEEM SINAI IS CELEBRATED IN THE PRESS AND WELCOMED BY PRIME MINISTER NEHRU HIMSELF. BUT THIS COINCIDENCE OF BIRTH HAS CONSEQUENCES SALEEM IS NOT PREPARED FOR, TELEPATHIC POWERS THAT CONNECT HIM WITH 1,000 OTHER MIDNIGHT'S CHILDREN ALL BORN IN THE INITIAL HOUR OF INDIA'S INDEPENDENCE AND AN UNCANNY SENSE OF SMELL THAT ALLOWS HIM TO SNIFF OUT DANGERS OTHERS CAN'T PerceivE. INEXTRICABLY LINKED TO HIS NATION, SALEEM'S BIOGRAPHY IS A WHRLWIND OF DISASTERS AND TRIUMPHS THAT MIRROR THE COURSE OF MODERN INDIA AT ITS MOST IMPOSSIBLE AND GLORIOUS."@en
  • "Born at the stroke of midnight at the exact moment of India's independence, Saleem Sinai is a special child. However, this coincidence of birth has consequences he is not prepared for: telepathic powers connect him with 1,000 other 'midnight's children' all of whom are endowed with unusual gifts."
  • "From the Publisher: 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."
  • "This is a many-layered narrative in which the complexities of the Indian sub-continent are projected through the minds of many characters. Comic, tragic and fantastic by turns, this is the novel which revolutionised English fiction."
  • "Contributed articles on Salman Rushdie's fictional work "Midnight's children"."

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  • "Criticism, interpretation, etc"@en
  • "Genres littéraires"
  • "Livres électroniques"
  • "Spanish language materials"
  • "litteraturanalyser"
  • "analyser"
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  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Fiction"
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  • "Fiction"@he
  • "Vertalingen (vorm)"
  • "Classical fiction"
  • "English fiction"
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  • "Roman indien (de l'Inde) de langue anglaise"
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  • "Online-Publikation"
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  • "Epic fiction"
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  • "Fills de la mitjanit"
  • "Midnight's children : [a novel]"
  • "Les enfants de minuit"
  • "Ta paidia tou mesonyktiou"
  • "Otroci polnoci"
  • "Bachahha-yi nimehshab"
  • "한범의 아이들"
  • "Middernachts-kinderen"
  • "Els Fills de la mitjanit. [Vol. I]"@ca
  • "Salman Rushdie's midnights children"
  • "‏ילדי חצות /‏"
  • "한밤의아이들"
  • "Az éjfél gyermekei"
  • "Những đứa con của nửa đêm"
  • "Deti polunochi : roman"
  • "Geceyarısı çocukları"
  • "Geceyarısı çocukları"@tr
  • "Midnight's children : [novel]"
  • "Dzieci pólnocy"
  • "Midnight's children [a novel]"@en
  • "Aṭfāl muntaṣaf al-layl"
  • "Salman Rushdie's "Midnight's children""
  • "Os Filhos da meia-noite"
  • "Bachahʹhā-yi nīmahʹshab"
  • "Děti půlnoci"
  • "Hanbŏmŭi aidŭl"
  • "Mitternachtskinder : Roman"
  • "Midnattsbarnen"@sv
  • "Midnattsbarnen"
  • "Midnattsbarnen"@en
  • "I figli della mezzanotte : [romanzo]"
  • "Hijos de la medianoche"@es
  • "Hijos de la medianoche"
  • "Middernachtskinderen"
  • "Salman Rushdie's Midnight's children"@en
  • "Salman Rushdie's Midnight's children"
  • "Midnight's children [Arabic edition]"
  • "Ta paidia tou mesonychtiou"
  • "Midnights children"
  • "Bachchahhā-yi nīmahshab"
  • "ילדי חצות"
  • "Mitternachtskinder Roman"
  • "Djeca ponoći"
  • "I figli della mezzanotte"@it
  • "I figli della mezzanotte"
  • "Dzieci północy"
  • "Dzieci północy"@pl
  • "Ādhī rāta kī santāneṃ : [upanyāsa]"
  • "Midnight's children : [Novel]"
  • "Els fills de la mitjanit"
  • "Mitternachts Kinder : Roman"
  • "Midnattsbarnen : [roman]"@sv
  • "Aṭfāl muntaṣaf al-layl : riwāya"
  • "Dzieci polnocy"
  • "Mitternachtskinder"
  • "Madhyarātrira śiśu"
  • "Midnight's Children"@en
  • "Midnight's Children"
  • "Thārok thīangkhư̄n"@th
  • "Les Enfants De Minuit : Roman"
  • "Yalde ḥatsot"
  • "Bachchah'hā-yi nı̄mahśhab"
  • "Midnigh'ts children"
  • "Midnight's children"@da
  • "Midnight's children"@en
  • "Midnight's children"
  • "Дети полуночи : роман"
  • "Midnight's children = Anak-anak tengah malam"
  • "Hijos de la media noche"@es
  • "Mitternachts-kinder"
  • "Kesköö lapsed"
  • "Les Enfants de minuit"
  • "Midnight's children a novel"@en
  • "Midnight's children : a novel"@en
  • "Midnight's children : a novel"
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  • "<&gt"@th
  • "Ādhī rāta kī santāneṃ"
  • "Les Enfants de minuit : roman"
  • "Os filhos da meia-noite"
  • "Keskiyön lapset"
  • "Keskiyön lapset"@fi
  • "Midnattsbarn"
  • "Midnight's children [sound recording]"
  • "Otroci polnoči"
  • "Otroci polnoči"@sl
  • "Hanbam ŭi aidŭl"
  • "ทารกเที่ยงคืน"
  • "Els Fills de la mitjanit"@ca
  • "Els Fills de la mitjanit"
  • "Geceyarısı = Midnight's children"
  • "Wu ye zhi zi"
  • "ทารกเี่ทยงืคน"
  • "Dzieci Północy"@pl
  • "Wu ye zhi zi / Midnight's children / Salman Rushdie"
  • "午夜之子"
  • "Midnatsbørn"@da
  • "Midnatsbørn"
  • "Les enfants de minuit : roman"
  • "Deca ponoći"
  • "Deca ponoći"@sr

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