Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie
Before Salman Rushdie had that problem with a certain religious-political figure with a serious need to chill out, he’d already shown he was an important literary force. Quite simply, Midnight’s Children is amazing–fun, beautiful, erudite, both fairy tale and political narrative told through a supernatural narrator who is caught between different worlds.
Though it’s a big book, with big themes of India’s nationhood and of ethnic and personal identity, it’s far from a dry history lesson. Rushdie tells the story in his own brand of magical realism, with a prose of lyrical, transcendent goofiness.
His story is the immortalisation of his memories, the “chutnification of history”, “the pickling of time”.
It is the story of a nation finding it’s identity, of impressions and memories, of people and events, of families and more.
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