Midnight's Children
Salman Rushdie
From Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars
AbeBooks Seller since May 18, 2007
From Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars
AbeBooks Seller since May 18, 2007
About this Item
The fourth impression of Salman Rushdie's award winning novel, detailing India's transition from British colonial rule to independence and partition. The fourth impression of the first edition, published in the same year as the first impression.In the publisher's original unclipped dust wrapper.Winner of the 1981 Man Booker Prize and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, the novel sold over one million copies in the UK alone.'Midnight's Children' follows India's transition to independence from British colonial rule. The story is told from the point of view of Saleem Sinai, born at the moment Indian independence was achieved, and thus imbued with special powers.The novel combines magical realism with historical fiction. In the publisher's original cloth binding, with unclipped dust wrapper. Light shelf wear to back strip tail, otherwise externally excellent. Sunning to dust wrapper back strip, and to head of front wrap. Small area of fading towards tail of front wrap. Internally, firmly bound. Pages clean and bright. Near Fine. Seller Inventory # 941F5
Bibliographic Details
Title: Midnight's Children
Publisher: Jonathan Cape, London
Publication Date: 1981
Binding: Cloth
Illustrator: None
Condition: Near Fine
Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good Indeed
Edition: First edition.
Book Type: book
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