The 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.
One could hear the shrieks of a woman in labour , but the baby showed no sign of coming nor its father present . ... Just at the midnight hour when twin children were born , one to Amina and other to Vanita ; the midwife Mary Pereira ...
On the other hand , this absence of identity makes sense in terms of the narrative setup of Midnight's Children : Padma is the tabula rasa or blank slate on whom Saleem writes his history . She must be ignorant both of his stories and ...
The Stupendous Success Of This Novel Broke All Previous Records And Rushdie Was Hailed As One Who Engendered A Whole New Generation Of Fiction Writers That Embraced Magical Realism As A Mode For The Depiction Of History.
1. Midnight's Children is clearly a work of fiction; yet, like many modern novels, it is presented as an autobiography. How can we tell it isn't? What literary devices are...