Bibliograph

Midnight's children, Salman Rushdie ; with an introduction by Anita Desai

Type

Label

Midnight's children, Salman Rushdie ; with an introduction by Anita Desai

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (page xxiii)

Index

no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

Midnight's children

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

33395438

Responsibility statement

Salman Rushdie ; with an introduction by Anita Desai

Series statement

Everyman's library, 217

Summary

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

Table Of Contents

Book One: Perforated sheet -- Mercurochrome -- Hit-the-spittoon -- Under the carpet -- Public announcement -- Many-headed monsters -- Methwold -- Tick, tock -- Book Two: Fisherman's pointing finger -- Snakes and ladders -- Accident in a washing-chest -- All-India radio -- Love in Bombay -- My tenth birthday -- At the pioneer cafe -- Alpha and Omega -- Kolynos kid -- Commander Sabarmati's baton -- Revelations -- Movements performed by Pepperpots -- Drainage and the desert -- Jamila Singer -- How Saleem achieved purity -- Book Three: Buddha -- In the Sundarbans -- Sam and the tiger -- Shadow of the mosque -- Wedding -- Midnight -- Abracadabra

Target audience

adult

Classification