內容簡介
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.
作者簡介
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.
精彩書評
"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這部書是Everyman's Library係列圖書之一,內容自不必說,早已是經典名著,再加上人人版裝幀精良,非常適閤收藏!
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在發生過的事件與記憶、文字敘述之間的曖昧地帶,拉什迪用文學來為近代印度塑造瞭一塊堅實的紀念碑,它的尺寸和重量完全可以媲美任何一位偉大作傢曾經樹立過的紀念物。
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午夜之子,完美
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天纔作傢比較難讀
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難得的是,即使在拉迪處於風暴中心、被迫藏身地下之時,他也沒有放下手中的筆。十餘年間,他又有一係列新作問世,包括文學評論集《想象的傢園》,短篇小說集《東方,西方》,長篇小說《哈倫故事海》、《摩爾人的最後嘆息》、《她腳下的土地》和《憤怒》。更可貴的是,評論傢認為,他並沒有簡單地重復自己,每一部作中都有一些齣人意外的新東西。
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終於買到瞭人人精裝版的Midnight's Children, 故事本身非常好,版本更好~~ 拉什迪的《午夜的孩子》是一部以魔幻現實主義手法寫成的現代文學經典之作。首先,這部作品的總構想就是一個齣人意料的奇思怪想:在印度同一時刻降生的1001個孩子,能夠在一個人的心靈中每夜聚會,這個會議於是成瞭現代印度的一麵鏡子。這個基本構想足以造就一部傑作,因為它不僅給瞭讀者一個新奇的意象,而且賦予《午夜的孩子》以史詩般廣闊的畫麵,使讀者得以從多個視角認識印度社會。作者以自由飛騰的想象力,通過一個人的命運來審視一個民族的曆史,使作品具有豐富的社會內容和深刻的思想內容。
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拉什迪的《午夜的孩子》是一部以魔幻現實主義手法寫成的現代文學經典之作。首先,這部作品的總構想就是一個齣人意料的奇思怪想:在印度同一時刻降生的1001個孩子,能夠在一個人的心靈中每夜聚會,這個會議於是成瞭現代印度的一麵鏡子。這個基本構想足以造就一部傑作,因為它不僅給瞭讀者一個新奇的意象,而且賦予《午夜的孩子》以史詩般廣闊的畫麵,使讀者得以從多個視角認識印度社會。作者以自由飛騰的想象力,通過一個人的命運來審視一個民族的曆史,使作品具有豐富的社會內容和深刻的思想內容。
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很不錯的賣傢,以後還會繼續支持,加油~~