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020 _a9780099580076
082 _a823.914
_bRUS
100 _aRushdie, Salman
245 _aMidnight's children
_cSalman Rushdie
260 _aLondon :
_bVintage Books,
_c1981
300 _a647 pages :
_c24 cm.
505 _tBook One: Perforated sheet -- Mercurochrome -- Hit-the-spittoon -- Under the carpet -- Public announcement -- Many-headed monsters -- Methwold -- Tick, tock --
_tBook Two: Fisherman's pointing finger -- Snakes and ladders -- Accident in a washing-chest -- All-India radio -- Love in Bombay -- My tenth birthday -- At the pioneer cafe -- Alpha and Omega -- Kolynos kid -- Commander Sabarmati's baton -- Revelations -- Movements performed by Pepperpots -- Drainage and the desert -- Jamila Singer -- How Saleem achieved purity --
_tBook Three: Buddha -- In the Sundarbans -- Sam and the tiger -- Shadow of the mosque -- Wedding -- Midnight -- Abracadabra.
520 _a From the Publisher: A classic novel, in which the man who calls himself the "bomb of Bombay" chronicles the story of a child and a nation that both came into existence in 1947-and examines a whole people's capacity for carrying inherited myths and inventing new ones.
650 _aInfants switched at birth -- Fiction.
650 _aIslam -- Relations -- Hinduism -- Fiction.
650 _aHinduism -- Relations -- Islam -- Fiction.
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_cBK
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