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020			_a978-0-099-58207-6
040			_cENGLISH
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100			_aRUSHDIE,SALMAN
245			_aMIDNIGHT'S CHILDREN
260			_aLONDON _bVINTAGE BOOKS _c2013
300			_a647
365			_2RUPEES _b499.00
366			_2RADIANT BOOK SERVICE _f20%
520			_aMidnight's Children: two children born at the stroke of midnight on August 15, 1947--the moment at which India became an independent nation--are switched in the hospital. The infant scion of a wealthy Muslim family is sent to be raised in a Hindu tenement, while the legitimate heir to such squalor ends up establishing squatters' rights to his unlucky hospital mate's luxurious bassinet. Switched babies are standard fare for a Hindi film, and one can't help but feel that Rushdie's world-view--and certainly his sense of the fantastical--has been shaped by the films of his childhood. But whereas the movies, while entertaining, are markedly mediocre, Midnight's Children is a masterpiece, brilliant written, wildly unpredictable, hilarious and heartbreaking in equal measure. Rushdie's narrator, Saleem Sinai, is the Hindu child raised by wealthy Muslims. Near the beginning of the novel, he informs us that he is falling apart--literally:
650			_aNOVEL,INDEPENDENCE,TELEPATHIC POWER
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