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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Midnight's Children [精装] 下载 epub mobi pdf txt 电子书 2024
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拉什迪出生在印度的穆斯林家庭,但却在英国接受教育,在文化上,他始终处于一种“边缘”的地位,这使他能以一种全新的视角来观察世界。他以英语为写作语言,小说素材大多来自印度次大陆,他在写作中经常采魔幻现实主义艺术的技巧,把“神话传统、寓言、后现代小说和通俗文化交织在一起”,他的作品可说是东西方文化交汇、碰撞的一幅幅异常生动的图画。
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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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三年前讀過,買來收藏,但沒有塑封,封面有點髒
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1947年出生於孟买、在回教中产阶级家庭中成长。十四岁移居英国读书。因於1989年出版的《魔鬼诗篇》(The Satanic Verses,获惠特布莱德最佳长篇小说奖,以及德国年度作者奖)而遭前伊朗领袖科梅尼下达追杀令,继而引发一连串声援作家创作自由的行动。其他著作有:长篇小说《格里茅斯》(Grimus)、《羞耻》(Shame,法国年度最佳外语书籍奖)、《哈乐与故事之海》(Haroun and the Sea of Stories,获作家协会奖)、《摩尔人的最後叹息》(The Moor's Last Sigh,获惠特布莱德年度长篇小说奖)、《她脚下的土地》(The Ground Beneath Her Feet)、和愤怒(Fury);短篇小说集《东方,西方》(East, West);报告文学《美洲豹的微笑:尼加拉瓜之旅》(The Jaguar Smile: A Nicaraguan Journey);随笔集《想像的家园》(Imaginary Homelands)和电影评论《绿野仙踪》。其著作已被译成三十馀种语言。
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终于买到了人人精装版的Midnight's Children, 故事本身非常好,版本更好~~
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Booker中的Booker奖, 一定很精彩.
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从包装质量到内容质量都没得说,布克奖中的布克奖
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关注这本书很久了,一直贵没舍得下手