{"product_id":"salman-rushdies-midnights-children-isbn-9780812969030","title":"Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 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. \u003cb\u003eMidnight’s Children\u003c\/b\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn allegory of modern India, \u003cb\u003eMidnight’s Children\u003c\/b\u003e 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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn collaboration with Simon Reade, Tim Supple and the Royal Shakespeare Society, Salman Rushdie has adapted his masterpiece for the stage.\u003cb\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eMidnight’s Children\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eMidnight’s Children \u003c\/i\u003esounds like a continent finding its voice.”\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“In Salman Rushdie, India has produced a glittering novelist—one with startling imaginative and intellectual resources, a master of perpetual storytelling.”\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A marvelous epic . . . Rushdie’s prose snaps into playback and flash-forward . . . stopping on images, vistas, and characters of unforgettable presence. Their range is as rich as India herself.”\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eNewsweek\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Burgeons with life, with exuberance and fantasy . . . Rushdie is a writer of courage, impressive strength, and sheer stylistic brilliance.”\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post Book World\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Pure story—an ebullient, wildly clowning, satirical, descriptively witty charge of energy.”\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eChicago Sun-Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“This brash, knowing, massive, aggressive novel is to modern India what Günter Grass’s \u003ci\u003eThe Tin Drum \u003c\/i\u003eis to modern Germany.”\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Dazzling . . . In combining past with present, nostalgic realism with mythic overtones, specific detail with complex and binding narrative devices, Rushdie has achieved a magnificent and unique work of fiction.”\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eThe Philadelphia Inquirer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eSalman Rushdie\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of fourteen previous novels, including \u003ci\u003eMidnight’s Children\u003c\/i\u003e (for which he won the Booker Prize and the Best of the Booker), \u003ci\u003eShame, The Satanic Verses, The Moor’s Last Sigh,\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eQuichotte,\u003c\/i\u003e all of which have been shortlisted for the Booker Prize; a collection of stories, \u003ci\u003eEast, West;\u003c\/i\u003e a memoir, \u003ci\u003eJoseph Anton;\u003c\/i\u003e a work of reportage, \u003ci\u003eThe Jaguar Smile;\u003c\/i\u003e and three collections of essays, most recently \u003ci\u003eLanguages of Truth\u003c\/i\u003e. His many awards include the Whitbread Prize for Best Novel, which he won twice; the PEN\/Allen Foundation Literary Service Award; the National Arts Award; the French Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger; the European Union’s Aristeion Prize for Literature; the Budapest Grand Prize for Literature; and the Italian Premio Grinzane Cavour. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and he is a Distinguished Writer in Residence at New York University. He is a former president of PEN America. His books have been translated into over forty languages.Winner of the Booker of Bookers [quote]--The New York Times","brand":"Modern Library","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44862772510949,"sku":"NP9780812969030","price":13.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780812969030.jpg?v=1767736061","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/salman-rushdies-midnights-children-isbn-9780812969030","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}