Rushdie, Midnight's Children
This course was available in the past and may be presented again as part of the Basic Program of Liberal Education curriculum.
In this course, we will read Salman Rushdie's modern classic, Midnight's Children.
Like Gunter Grass in The Tin Drum, in Midnight’s Children, Salman Rushdie creates a fantastic witness to major events in the 20th century. Through his first person narrator, Saleem Sinai, Rushdie both records and attempts to understand the trauma of India’s birth and the travails of its first three decades of existence. Midnight’s Children won not only the Booker Prize in 1981, but the retrospective Best of the Booker in 2008.
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