Review: Midnight's Children

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. Read full review

Essential
Seminal work of the post colonial literature canon. Provides a remarkable look at the concepts of assimilation and otherness.

Magical Realism is not confined to Latin America. Rushdie's prose and storytelling is on par with Carpentier, Cortazar, and even Borges.

Review: Midnight's Children

Salman Rushdie's narrative tone in this book is jovial and humorous, even when he's describing pretty horrific things. It sneaks up on you that the first-person narrator, Saleem Sinai, is not just a ... Read full review

Review: Midnight's Children

I truly am sorry, Salman. It's trite to say, I know, but it really wasn't you, it was me. I take all the blame for not connecting, ignorant as I am about the Indian subcontinent's history, culture ... Read full review

Review: Midnight's Children

It was a torture to read. Delved into a world of fantasy and myth. A lot of precis which simply re-hashes prior information. Protagonist appears confused. Plot draaaaaaaaaaags on and the author delved ... Read full review

Review: Midnight's Children

I tried so hard to like this book and I couldn't do it. It's like being trapped inside a schizophrenic's worst nightmare. The story of India is wound, and rewound, and painfully wound again into the ... Read full review

Review: Midnight's Children

Pick up important historical and political events from the 20th century India (and Pakistan and Bangladesh), combine them with the famous exotic and destitute elements of the subcontinent (pickles ... Read full review

Review: Midnight's Children

I started reading this book with a high expectation given all the media hypes associated with this. But too much mixing of Indian and English words made it a very difficult book to read. The metaphors ... Read full review

Review: Midnight's Children

Update: Just back from watching the movie and.... well... it kind of highlights the less great parts of the book, just because it's a movie. You notice the non-plot, you notice that the characters get ... Read full review