Midnight's Children
Overview
1981 in literature
The year 1981 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:*PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction given for the first time...
book by Salman Rushdie about India's transition from British colonialism to independence and the partition of India
Partition of India
The Partition of India was the partition of British India on the basis of religious demographics that led to the creation of the sovereign states of the Dominion of Pakistan and the Union of India on 14 and 15...
. It is considered an example of postcolonial literature and magical realism. The story is told by its chief protagonist, Saleem Sinai, and is set in the context of actual historical events as with historical fiction
Historical fiction
Historical fiction tells a story that is set in the past. That setting is usually real and drawn from history, and often contains actual historical persons, but the principal characters tend to be fictional...
.
Midnight's Children won both the Booker Prize and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize
James Tait Black Memorial Prize
Founded in 1919, the James Tait Black Memorial Prizes are among the oldest and most prestigious book prizes awarded for literature written in the English language and are Britain's oldest literary awards...
in 1981.
Quotations
"Hell is other people's fantasies..."
Source: "Abracadabra"
Children are vessels where adults pour their poison
"[T]here is no magic on earth strong enough to wipe out the legacies of one's parents."
Source: "The Shadow of the Mosque"
"You be respectable, sister," she said, "Me, I'll be alive."
Source: "How Saleem Achieved Purity"
"no people whose word for "yesterday" is the same as their word for "tomorrow" can be said to have a firm grip on the time."
Source: "Tick, Tock"
Category:Novels