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Salman Rushdie's Midnight's children / adapted for the theatre by Salman Rushdie, Simon Reade and Tim Supple.

Title
  1. Salman Rushdie's Midnight's children / adapted for the theatre by Salman Rushdie, Simon Reade and Tim Supple.
Published by
  1. New York : Modern Library, 2003.
Author
  1. Rushdie, Salman

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Additional authors
  1. Reade, Simon
  2. Supple, Tim
  3. Rushdie, Salman.
Description
  1. 126 p.; 21 cm.
Summary
  1. The life of a man born at the moment of India's independence becomes inextricably linked to that of his nation and is a whirlwind of disasters and triumphs that mirror modern India's course.
  2. "In the moments of upheaval that surround the stroke of midnight on August 14-15, 1947, the day India proclaimed its independence from Great Britain, 1,001 children are born - each of whom is gifted with supernatural powers. 'Midnight’s Children' focuses on the fates of two of them - the illegitimate son of a poor Hindu woman and the male heir of a wealthy Muslim family - who become inextricably linked when a midwife switches the boys at birth. An allegory of modern India, 'Midnight’s Children' is a family saga set against the volatile events of the thirty years following the country’s independence - the partitioning of India and Pakistan, the rule of Indira Gandhi, the onset of violence and war, and the imposition of martial law. It is a magical and haunting tale, of fragmentation and of the struggle for identity and belonging that links personal life with national history. In collaboration with Simon Reade, Tim Supple and the Royal Shakespeare Society, Salman Rushdie has adapted his masterpiece for the stage."--taken from back cover.
Uniform title
  1. Midnight's children
Alternative title
  1. Midnight's children
Subject
  1. Since 1947
  2. Drama
  3. India > Drama
  4. Supernatural > Drama
  5. Poor children > Drama
  6. Children of the rich > Drama
  7. Hinduism > Relations > Islam > Drama
  8. Islam > Relations > Hinduism > Drama
  9. Infants switched at birth > Drama
Genre/Form
  1. Drama
Owning institution
  1. Harvard Library
Note
  1. Stage adaptation of Rushdie's novel Midnight's children.
Processing action (note)
  1. committed to retain