BOOKS
Rushdie, Salman / Bhushan, Anna (illustr.).
Midnight's children.
London, The Folio Society, 2009
€ 79.90
Bound, decorated cloth with slipcase, xvii+538pp., 17x23,5cm., 9 illustr. in color by Anna Bhushan, in very good condition (slipcase with very light traces of use, name and date in pencil on first page).
It is a 1981 novel by Indian-British writer Salman Rushdie, about India's transition from British colonial rule to independence and partition. It is a postcolonial, postmodern and magical realist story told by its chief protagonist, Saleem Sinai, set in the context of historical events. The style of preserving history with fictional accounts is self-reflexive.