Midnight's children
By: Salman Rushdie ; with an introduction by Anita Desai.
Series: Everyman's library ;
Publisher: A.A. Knopf
Published: 1995
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 589
Subjects: Infants switched at birth -- Fiction.; Islam -- Relations -- Hinduism -- Fiction.; Hinduism -- Relations -- Islam -- Fiction.; Children of the rich -- Fiction.; Poor children -- Fiction.; Supernatural -- Fiction.; India -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
First sentence: I was born in the city of Bombay . . . once upon a time.
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. xxiii).
Table of contents: title: Introduction
pagenum: vii; title: Select Bibliography
pagenum: xxiii; title: Chronology
pagenum: xxiv; title: Contents
pagenum: xxxv; title: Book One; title: The Perforated Sheet
pagenum: 7; title: Mercurochrome
pagenum: 26; title: Hit-the-Spittoon
pagenum: 43; title: Under the Carpet
pagenum: 61; title: A Public Announcement
pagenum: 78; title: Many-headed Monsters
pagenum: 97; title: Methword
pagenum: 114; title: Tick, Tock
pagenum: 133; title: Book Two; title: The Fisherman's Pointing Finger
pagenum: 153; title: Snakes and Ladders
pagenum: 173; title: Accident in a Washing-Chest
pagenum: 190; title: All-India Radio
pagenum: 211; title: Love in Bombay
pagenum: 229; title: My Tenth Birthday
pagenum: 245; title: At the Pioneer Café
pagenum: 264; title: Alpha and Omega
pagenum: 283; title: The Kolynos Kid
pagenum: 301; title: Commander Sabarmati's Baton
pagenum: 320; title: Revelations
pagenum: 339; title: Movements Performed by Pepperpots
pagenum: 358; title: Drainage and the Desert
pagenum: 373; title: Jamila Singer
pagenum: 389; title: How Saleem Achieved Purity
pagenum: 414; title: Book Three; title: The Buddha
pagenum: 439; title: In the Sundarbans
pagenum: 458; title: Sam and the Tiger
pagenum: 476; title: The Shadow of the Mosque
pagenum: 488; title: A Wedding
pagenum: 514; title: Midnight
pagenum: 536; title: Abracadabra
pagenum: 563