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Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie Published: 1980 (Themes (Naming…
Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
Published: 1980
About
Tumultuous transition of India and Pakistan after partition
Magical realism to combine history with Rushdie's fictional twist to history
Summary
Book One: The Perforated Sheet
Saleem Sinai
:silhouette:
b. 15th August 1947
Story begins 30 years before
Aadam Aziz
:silhouette:(Saleem's grandfather)
Becomes a doctor in Germany. Returns to India. Love with
Naseem
:silhouette:(view one part)
Naseem and Aadam marry
discover, bad match but remain together
Aadam withers away but Naseem gets more robust with each child
Aadam and his personal assistant,
Nadir
politically :silhouette: falls behind Mian Abdullah
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Themes
Naming as an identity
Post-Colonialism
Unreliability of story telling
Mythology and the epic story
Boundaries and borders
Racism and Sexism
Class and social structure