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Midnight's Children
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Man Booker Prize Winner, 1981
Salman Rushdie holds the literary world in awe with a jaw-dropping catalog of critically acclaimed novels that have made him one of the world's most celebrated authors. Winner of the prestigious Booker of Bookers, Midnight's Children tells the story of Saleem Sinai, born on the stroke of India's independence.
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“Burgeons with life, with exuberance and fantasy . . . Rushdie is a writer of courage, impressive strength, and sheer stylistic brilliance.” (The Washington Post Book World)
“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.” (Newsweek)
“Extraordinary . . . one of the most important [novels] to come out of the English-speaking world in this generation.” (The New York Review of Books)
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- Jannyka Wall
- 2022-12-14
Perfect
Tried listening to my favourite book of all time, and this narration is absolutely spot on. I wish that LG would narrate all of Rushdie’s books.
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- coach amanda
- 2020-11-01
One of the best books of modern times
One of the greatest works of literature of all time and the narrator tells the story perfectly. Some people may not enjoy this book, especially if they have no experience of India, or an understanding of Indian history.
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- Gail
- 2022-10-09
Fantastic narrator
A fascinating story and probably the best narration of any audio book I've ever listened to. The characters were brought to life
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- KO
- 2020-09-25
He talks faster every time there's a list.
I've got him on 0.85 x speed and it's still hard to understand. In between his speaking.so fast it's practically rapping it's so sloooowwww. Who on Earth actually reads like this
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- Rafael Pimentel
- 2019-07-24
Did not bother to finish
This was probably the worst book I've read in a very long time. The story is uninteresting unless you have a deep connection with stories "what's his name" that take forever to go anywhere and engage you.
I made it 8 hrs into the audio book and after numerous instances where I braced myself waiting for anything of importance to happen, it just dissapointed further.
This is the only book I've ever refunded in my entire life.
You've been warned.
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- DR NICHLAS SLADEN-DEW
- 2018-08-24
Absolutely awful!!!
How on earth could this dreadful book have ever won the Booker? It’s only the second book I simply refuse to finish. Dreadful!
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- Fiona Burness
- 2021-12-28
First and last Rushdie novel I'll read
Flashes of brilliance, some sections that are compelling, but I found the rambling historical, political sections really tedious. Overall not a book I would recommend.
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- TO_4_life
- 2022-10-02
Imaginative but chock full of inconsistencies
Author’s disdain for his Kashmiri background is rivalled only by his hatred for the religion of his birth, Islam. Even Ingrid Falaise, a Canadian woman writer who suffered enormously at the hands of her physically abusive husband, describes Islam with more reverence when she describes the religion of her ex-husband than Rushdie does in this novel.
While Rushdie leaves no stone unturned in describing Indian politics, not a single word is devoted to describe the raison d’être for Kashmir’s indigenous struggle for independence from India dating back 70 years, which is well documented and recognized by the UN.
My favourite part of the story is when he describes India as ‘modern’ where low-caste widowed women are still subjected to a life of misery and neglect by the Indian society when their husbands die as opposed to being thrown alive into their husband’s funeral pyres a few decades ago.
Very Modern indeed!
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