Book
Midnight's children : a novel
Record details
- ISBN: 0679444629 (Knopf, Everyman's Library)
- ISBN: 0676970656 (Vintage)
- ISBN: 0330267140 (Picador)
- ISBN: 039451470X :
- ISBN: 0679444629
- ISBN: 9780676970654 (Vintage)
- ISBN: 9780330267144 (Picador)
- ISBN: 9780394514703 :
- ISBN: 9780679444626
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Physical Description:
446 p. ; 25 cm.
print - Edition: 1st American ed.
- Publisher: New York : Knopf, 1981, c1980.
Search for related items by subject
| Subject: | Children -- India -- Fiction India -- Politics and government -- 1947- -- Fiction India -- History -- 1947- -- Fiction |
| Genre: | Indic fiction. Political fiction. Metaphorical tales. Satire. |
Available copies
- 1 of 2 copies available at BC Interlibrary Connect. (Show)
- 0 of 1 copy available at Prince Rupert Library.
Holds
- 0 current holds with 2 total copies.
Other Formats and Editions
| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Holdable? | Status | Due Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Prince Rupert Library | RUSH (Text) | 33294000121673 | Adult Fiction - Second Floor | Volume hold | Checked out | 2024-04-02 |
Salman Rushdie was born in 1947 and has lived in England since 1961. He is the author of six novels: Grimus, Midnightâs Children, which won the Booker Prize in 1981 and the James Tait Black Prize, Shame, winner of the French Prix du Meilleur Livre Etranger, The Satanic Verses, which won the Whitbread Prize for Best Novel, Haroun and the Sea of Stories, which won the Writersâ Guild Award and The Moorâs Last Sigh which won the Whitbread Novel of the Year Award. He has also published a collection of short stories East, West, a book of reportage The Jaguar Smile, a volume of essays Imaginary Homelands and a work of film criticism The Wizard of Oz. His most recent novel is The Ground Beneath Her Feet, which was published in 1999. Salman Rushdie was awarded Germanyâs Author of the Year Award for his novel The Satanic Verses in 1989. In 1993, Midnightâs Children was voted the âBooker of Bookersâ, the best novel to have won the Booker Prize in its first 25 years. In the same year, he was awarded the Austrian State Prize for European Literature. He is also Honorary Professor in the Humanities at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. His books have been published in more than two dozen languages.
