Reviews
"Extraordinary . . . one of the most important [novels] to come out of the English-speaking world in this generation." The New York Review of Books "The literary map of India is about to be redrawn. . . . Midnight's Children sounds like a continent finding its voice." The New York Times "In Salman Rushdie, India has produced a glittering novelist one with startling imaginative and intellectual resources, a master of perpetual storytelling." The New Yorker "A marvelous epic . . . Rushdie's prose snaps into playback and flash-forward . . . stopping on images, vistas, and characters of unforgettable presence. Their range is as rich as India herself." Newsweek "Burgeons with life, with exuberance and fantasy . . . Rushdie is a writer of courage, impressive strength, and sheer stylistic brilliance." The Washington Post Book World "Pure storyan ebullient, wildly clowning, satirical, descriptively witty charge of energy." Chicago Sun-Times, "Salman Rushdie has earned the right to be called one of our great storytellers." -- Observer "Huge, vital, engrossing... in all senses a fantastic book." -- Sunday Times "The literary map of India has been redrawn... Midnight's Children sounds like a country finding its voice." -- New York Times "A brilliant and endearing novel." -- London Review of Books From the Trade Paperback edition., "In Salman Rushdie, India has produced a glittering novelist--one with startling imaginative and intellectual resources, a master of perpetual storytelling." -- The New Yorker "A marvelous epic . . . Rushdie's prose snaps into playback and flash-forward . . . stopping on images, vistas, and characters of unforgettable presence. Their range is as rich as India herself." -- Newsweek "Burgeons with life, with exuberance and fantasy . . . Rushdie is a writer of courage, impressive strength, and sheer stylistic brilliance." -- The Washington Post Book World "Pure story--an ebullient, wildly clowning, satirical, descriptively witty charge of energy." -- Chicago Sun-Times "This brash, knowing, massive, aggressive novel is to modern India what Günter Grass's The Tin Drum is to modern Germany." -- The New York Times Book Review "Dazzling . . . In combining past with present, nostalgic realism with mythic overtones, specific detail with complex and binding narrative devices, Rushdie has achieved a magnificent and unique work of fiction." -- The Philadelphia Inquirer, " Extraordinary . . . one of the most important [novels] to come out of the English-speaking world in this generation." - The New York Review of Books " The literary map of India is about to be redrawn. . . . Midnight's Children sounds like a continent finding its voice." - The New York Times " In Salman Rushdie, India has produced a glittering novelist- one with startling imaginative and intellectual resources, a master of perpetual storytelling." - The New Yorker " A marvelous epic . . . Rushdie's prose snaps into playback and flash-forward . . . stopping on images, vistas, and characters of unforgettable presence. Their range is as rich as India herself." - Newsweek " Burgeons with life, with exuberance and fantasy . . . Rushdie is a writer of courage, impressive strength, and sheer stylistic brilliance." - The Washington Post Book World " Pure story- an ebullient, wildly clowning, satirical, descriptively witty charge of energy." - Chicago Sun-Times, "Extraordinary . . . one of the most important Ýnovels¨ to come out of the English-speaking world in this generation." -The New York Review of Books "The literary map of India is about to be redrawn. . . . Midnight's Children sounds like a continent finding its voice." -The New York Times "In Salman Rushdie, India has produced a glittering novelist- one with startling imaginative and intellectual resources, a master of perpetual storytelling." -The New Yorker "A marvelous epic . . . Rushdie's prose snaps into playback and flash-forward . . . stopping on images, vistas, and characters of unforgettable presence. Their range is as rich as India herself." -Newsweek "Burgeons with life, with exuberance and fantasy . . . Rushdie is a writer of courage, impressive strength, and sheer stylistic brilliance." -The Washington Post Book World "Pure story-an ebullient, wildly clowning, satirical, descriptively witty charge of energy." -Chicago Sun-Times
