by Salman Rushdie · Plaza & Janés · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788401413841
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«Hijos de la medianoche» is Salman Rushdie's magic realist novel in the 1997 Plaza & Janés paperback edition, in Spanish.
Saleem Sinai is born in Bombay at midnight on 15 August 1947, as India gains independence, and is linked to other children born at that same hour with whom he shares a singular gift. The novel interweaves his family story with the country's political evolution in a tale of magic realism, humour and fantasy.
The original title, «Midnight's Children», was published in 1981 and won the Booker Prize and the Booker of Bookers.
For readers of literary fiction, magic realism and contemporary Indian history.
Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie is an Indian-born British and American novelist. His work often combines magical realism with historical fiction and primarily deals with connections, disruptions, and migrations between Eastern and Western civilizations, typically set on the Indian subcontinent. Rushdie's second novel, Midnight's Children (1981), won the Booker Prize in 1981 and was deemed to be "the best novel of all winners" on two occasions that marked the 25th and the 40th anniversary of the prize.
