Midnight's Children
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"Midnight's Children" is a landmark postcolonial novel by Salman Rushdie that blends magical realism with Indian history around the time of independence and Partition.
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| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
magic realist novel
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novel → postcolonial novel → |
| adaptedAs |
Midnight's Children (film)
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| author |
Salman Rushdie
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| awardReceived |
Best of the Booker
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Booker Prize → Booker of Bookers → |
| BestOfTheBookerYear |
2008
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| BookerOfBookersYear |
1993
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| BookerPrizeYear |
1981
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| countryOfOrigin |
United Kingdom
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| featuresConcept |
children born at the exact moment of Indian independence
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telepathic connection among midnight-born children → |
| filmAdaptationDirector |
Deepa Mehta
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| filmAdaptationReleaseYear |
2012
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| followedBy |
Shame
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| follows |
Grimus
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| genre |
historical fiction
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magic realism → postcolonial literature → |
| hasTheme |
family saga
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history and storytelling → memory → national identity → postcolonialism → |
| ISBN |
0-224-01876-4
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| literaryMovement |
postmodernism
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| literarySignificance |
key work of postcolonial fiction
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landmark of Indian English literature → |
| mainCharacter |
Saleem Sinai
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| narrativePerson |
first-person
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| narrator |
Saleem Sinai
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| numberOfPages |
446
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| originalLanguage |
English
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| publicationYear |
1981
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| publisher |
Jonathan Cape
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| setInPeriod |
Indian independence
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Partition of India → post-independence India → |
| settingLocation |
Bangladesh
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Bombay → Kashmir → Pakistan → |
| structure |
non-linear narrative
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| usesTechnique |
magic realism
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unreliable narrator → |
Referenced by (7)
| Subject (surface form when different) | Predicate |
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Salman Rushdie
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Salman Rushdie → |
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Midnight's Children
("Midnight's Children (film)")
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adaptedAs |
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Shame
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followsWork |
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Time 100 best English-language novels list
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hasWork |
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Shame
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precededBy |
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Booker of Bookers
("Midnight’s Children")
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winner |