Title Midnight's children / Salman Rushdie ; with an introduction by Anita Desai.

Publication Info.	New York : A.A. Knopf, [1995]
	©1995.

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Location	Call No.	Status
Enfield, Main Library - Adult Department	F RUSHDIE	Check Shelf
Manchester, Main Library - Adult Fiction	RUSHDIE, SALMAN	Check Shelf
New Britain, Main Library - Adult Fiction	FIC RUSHDIE	Check Shelf
Southington Library - Adult	813.54 RUS	Check Shelf

Description	xxxvii, 589 pages ; 21 cm.
Series	Everyman's library ; 217
	Everyman's library.
Awards	Man Booker Prize, 1981
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (page xxiii).
Contents	Book One: Perforated sheet -- Mercurochrome -- Hit-the-spittoon -- Under the carpet -- Public announcement -- Many-headed monsters -- Methwold -- Tick, tock -- Book Two: Fisherman's pointing finger -- Snakes and ladders -- Accident in a washing-chest -- All-India radio -- Love in Bombay -- My tenth birthday -- At the pioneer cafe -- Alpha and Omega -- Kolynos kid -- Commander Sabarmati's baton -- Revelations -- Movements performed by Pepperpots -- Drainage and the desert -- Jamila Singer -- How Saleem achieved purity -- Book Three: Buddha -- In the Sundarbans -- Sam and the tiger -- Shadow of the mosque -- Wedding -- Midnight -- Abracadabra.
Summary	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.
Subject	Infants switched at birth -- Fiction.
	Islam -- Relations -- Hinduism -- Fiction.
	Hinduism -- Relations -- Islam -- Fiction.
	Children of the rich -- Fiction.
	Poor children -- Fiction.
	Paranormal fiction.
	India -- Fiction.
	FICTION / Literary.
	FICTION / Psychological.
	FICTION / Sagas.
	Children of the rich (OCoLC)fst00855516
	Hinduism (OCoLC)fst00957121
	Infants switched at birth (OCoLC)fst01432056
	Interfaith relations (OCoLC)fst01353343
	Islam (OCoLC)fst00979776
	Paranormal fiction (OCoLC)fst01775199
	Poor children (OCoLC)fst01071167
	India (OCoLC)fst01210276
Genre/Form	Paranormal fiction (OCoLC)fst01921727
	Epic fiction (OCoLC)fst01921643
	Fiction (OCoLC)fst01423787
	Magic realist fiction.
	Epic literature.
	Epic fiction.
	Paranormal fiction.
Added Author	Desai. Anita, writer of introduction.
Other Form:	Online version: Rushdie, Salman. Midnight's children. New York : A.A. Knopf, ©1995 (OCoLC)605194377
ISBN	0679444629
	9780679444626

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